So there's 'we know the way social media plays out' and there's actual science and the two phenomena have nothing in common beyond 'we drew conclusions based on

So there's 'we know the way social media plays out' and there's actual science and the two phenomena have nothing in common beyond 'we drew conclusions based on what we saw'. The difference is that the latter is rigorously controlled, tested and peer-reviewed for according to a vetted methodology, and the former is no different from saying 'basically all asian people I have met are good at math, thus this new asian person I have just now met must also be good at math'