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This has led to some interesting neurological findings: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon http://prefront
by Tobu 13y ago
This has led to some interesting neurological findings: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon
http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg
via http://www.metafilter.com/85322/The-Wisdom-of-Salmon http://www.metafilter.com/85322/The-Wisdom-of-Salmon
An extreme example, illustrating a common mistake in the field. https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/ has the gist of it.
- shirederby 13y agoThe "Salmon study" was an illustration of the necessity of correcting for multiple comparisons in voxel-wise testing. The problem it's addressing isn't itself data dredging, based on the definition linked above on Wikipedia. Uncorrected multiple comparisons are, of course, a big portion of the statistical dubiousness inherent it "data dredging"