But this is like a danger and a trap–kind of living off of an abstract. A lot of things in small studies don’t actually translate to the real world […] You can’t underestimate the value of, like, personal experience when that vastly outnumbers the small study that is available.
Dr. Maxfield and Dr. Shah talk more about their experiences with treating hundreds of patients and the results they get versus the results smaller scale laboratory-limited studies get in the linked video above. It helps illustrate how studies should not be the sole results to consider when doing personal research. It’s tempting to completely dismiss personal anecdotes altogether in favor of scientific studies, but this overlooks the limits that scientific studies are often prey to.
ursilla the tsundere stubborn thirsty laird’s daughter and the selkie
Wikipedia excerpt:
Male selkies are described as being very handsome in their human form, and having great seductive powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their lives, such as married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. In one popular tattletale version about a certain “Ursilla” of Orkney (a pseudonym), it was rumoured that when she wished to make contact with her male selkie she would shed seven tears into the sea.
— Dennison, W. Traill (1893). “Orkney Folk-Lore”. The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
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