17 Jan
2011
17 Jan
'11
6 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Henry Baker wrote:
Yet the episode has inflamed one of the longest-running debates in science. For decades, some statisticians have argued that the standard technique used to analyze data in much of social science and medicine overstates many study findings often by a lot. As a result, these experts say, the literature is littered with positive findings that do not pan out: ?effective? therapies that are no better than a placebo; slight biases that do not affect behavior; brain-imaging correlations that are meaningless.
I heard some scientists bashing on fMRI studies a while back, and they mentioned this study on a dead salmon: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/