Yes, it is always important to remember the limitations of what a scientific study can tell you. For good reasons, researchers have to really limit themselves in the kinds of variables they are analyzing in order to make sure to really locate the right chains of causation. In the process, a lot of important details can be lost.
That said, there is much that can be noticed through careful, rigorous, and superficial statistical studies that the anecdotes of ordinary human experience won’t reveal.
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