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The Capt'n obviously didn't know his fish but knew what would rile us up...fast and bulbously.
I tried to listen to some of the Capt'n. That is horrible! Capt'n Crunch is likely to be more musically inclined!
 
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This paper won the 2012 Neuroscience Ignobel prize. It was on Atlantic Salmon. they looked at brain activities in a dead Atlantic salmon to show that the way functional MRI research is done in live patients relies on a ridiculous amount of comparisons. Normally when we do research, the more comparisons you do to find a significant result, the more the researcher needs to do some form of correction for the comparison number to account for the finding. (kinda like fishing and casting everywhere in a lake the first time you go there, and catching a fish in one spot, and because you caught a fish there, assuming that one spot is where all the fish are.) Making statistical significance gets way harder when you account for the number of comparisons (or in the fishing analogy the number of casts or locations tried). The dead fish paper's conclusions showed that brain areas lit up during tasks like assigning an emotion a human has when their picture was shown to the dead fish. The implication is the comparisons led to errors of overinterpretation or false positives. The global point being the entire LITERATURE of functional MRI findings is dubious at best...
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This paper won the 2012 Neuroscience Ignobel prize. It was on Atlantic Salmon. they looked at brain activities in a dead Atlantic salmon to show that the way functional MRI research is done in live patients relies on a ridiculous amount of comparisons. Normally when we do research, the more comparisons you do to find a significant result, the more the researcher needs to do some form of correction for the comparison number to account for the finding. (kinda like fishing and casting everywhere in a lake the first time you go there, and catching a fish in one spot, and because you caught a fish there, assuming that one spot is where all the fish are.) Making statistical significance gets way harder when you account for the number of comparisons (or in the fishing analogy the number of casts or locations tried). The dead fish paper's conclusions showed that brain areas lit up during tasks like assigning an emotion a human has when their picture was shown to the dead fish. The implication is the comparisons led to errors of overinterpretation or false positives. The global point being the entire LITERATURE of functional MRI findings is dubious at best...
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MRI also shows some tasty looking belly meat.
 
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