- Studies on the self usually do not apply to you, results are averaged which is awful - instead of western medication focusing at the population level and is about statistics and the science, but stats do not teach us how to get there - Eastern looks at the self - the Western world largely focuses on statistics rather than our intrinsic understanding and feelings. The effects of the medicine can range on the individual from 5 to 50% but that will be generalized to 25%, although we know that that greatly damages the interpretation of the statistic, preventing us from realized it's very ability - saying we have to eat 2000 calories a day because some people had 1000 and some people had 3000 and you ended up finding the average is stupid and fails to accomodate for the individual