decade and a half of neurological research
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 1:18 pm
Maybe down the toilet because some hack programmers didn't test their shit.
The researchers expected that there would be about a 5% margin in difference between the fMRI software's analysis and the actual data, but they instead discovered that the three software packages were producing data with a 70% chance of finding at least one false positive.
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"Functional MRI is 25 years old, yet surprisingly its most common statistical methods have not been validated using real data," the researchers wrote in their paper.