> Through targeted online and field recruiting (N = 360), we invited 44 participants (equally split among liberals and conservatives) to participate in a study

> Through targeted online and field recruiting (N = 360), we invited 44 participants (equally split among liberals and conservatives) to participate in a study on political cognition And thats your problem with science. We dont know how old these people are, we dont know the selection process, ie were they all recruited down the local Masonic Lodge, or at a University, or at a Church. More data is needed on the recruitment processes in order to eliminate any selection or manipulation bias, otherwise am I watching a scientific magic show? We dont know if these people are Early Adopters on the Everett Rogers Diffusion of innovations curve. It might be better to title this study, fMRI used to map Social Conformity as studied by people like Solomon Asch or fMRI used to map Authority to Obedience as studied by people like Stanley Milgram and more recently Phillip Zimbardo, where the idea's/ideology are the authority. Would that be fair?