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Utterly useless. There's no control group, and they repeated the memory test. Anyone will get better on the second time taking that test. The fMRI correlations
by ProjectArcturis 3y ago
Utterly useless. There's no control group, and they repeated the memory test. Anyone will get better on the second time taking that test.
The fMRI correlations with memory improvement are between a very limited subset of the brain regions and the test results. These would very likely disappear if they properly controlled for multiple comparisons.
- smegsicle 3y agowow flagged how common is garbage science like that? is this what is expected from UMD?
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoI can only speak to fMRI, but this is very common. I would say that the majority of fMRI studies add zero or negative value to the literature. They are expensive to do, and difficult to do well, so there is enormous pressure to turn bad data into papers.