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1) In 2008 a salmon (yes the fish) was put through an MRI scanner. The salmon was shown a series of photographs of humans in social situations, and asked to determine the emotion of the person in the photo (yes, really).
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 5,854 Retweets ❤️ 14,176 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +2 🙂
The captcha and the 'Contact Us' button are perfect 😂😭 #digitalexperience
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One of the suspects of the incident #LastNightInSweden arrested by police. Our polar bear problem is YUGE! Sad.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,127 Retweets ❤️ 2,034 Favorites 2017 Feb 19 Mood -8 🙁
The Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the 3-point seatbelt in 1959. In 2002, the year of Bohlin's death, it was estimated the seatbelt had saved more than one million lives. The design was given away for free to competitors, for the benefit of humanity rather than profit.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 623 Retweets ❤️ 2,349 Favorites 2021 Apr 30 Mood +5 🙂
My passion for the world of vampires certainly grew thanks to Anne Rice. In remembrance of her genius I pledge to consume more vampiric content during the upcoming holidays. 🧛‍♀️ #AnneRice
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 537 Retweets ❤️ 1,946 Favorites 2021 Dec 12 Mood +3 🙂
"What does the research say?" When people repeatedly ask this it seems they are asking "What are the facts?". But shouldn't they also ask: * Who paid for the research? * Who performed the research? * Who was part of the research? * Has it been replicated? 🤔
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 405 Retweets ❤️ 1,017 Favorites 2018 Jan 26 Mood 0
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10) Reminder: when we see images with areas of the brain in bright colors, that’s not necessarily telling us that one part of the brain is active and the rest isn’t. They’re probability maps. They show the likelihood of activity happening in a given area, not proof of activity.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 230 Retweets ❤️ 2,239 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +2 🙂
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9) When the poster for this study was presented, between 25-40% of studies on fMRI being published were NOT using corrected comparisons. But by the time these authors won the Ignobel Prize, that number dropped to 10%. That salmon is a hero.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 217 Retweets ❤️ 3,017 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +4 🙂
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12) Here's more info on when they won the IgNobel Prize: blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/ And please also read this interview with two of the authors: it's brilliant: boingboing.net/2012/10/02/what-a-dead-fish-can-teach-you.html Craig Bennet is also on Twitter: prefrontal
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 196 Retweets ❤️ 1,393 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +8 🙂
Struggling with an icon (as one does). The struggle here is that the check mark is common for "ok/ready/done". In Sweden it has historically been used to mark wrong answers on tests. The opposite, really. So now I need more understanding on how big of a conflict this really is.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 168 Retweets ❤️ 457 Favorites 2021 Sep 14 Mood -7 🙁
…in reply to @axbom
13) Moral of the story: don't go fishing unless you' re prepared to not catch any fish. prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 165 Retweets ❤️ 1,628 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +1 🙂
#Stockholm is not in a state of panic. I translated this excellent post by kjellhaglund
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 161 Retweets ❤️ 291 Favorites 2017 Apr 8 Mood 0
A dangerous fallacy is that killer robots will take the appearance of monstrous, mechanical machines. Instead, killer robots have (among many other disguises) taken the appearance of web forms automatically determining if people are eligible for financial assistance.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 160 Retweets ❤️ 353 Favorites 2021 Oct 15 Mood -3 🙁
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5) As the story goes, the lead author of this study, Dr. Craig Bennett had headed into the store first thing in the morning and proclaimed: "I need a full length Atlantic Salmon. For science."
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 150 Retweets ❤️ 1,855 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood 0
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7) If you do a lot of tests, at least some of them will come out positive, even if they are not real. These are called false positives, and they are something you really want to watch out for.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 150 Retweets ❤️ 2,250 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +2 🙂
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8) To be clear, the salmon study doesn't show that fMRI is bogus. It shows the huge importance of correcting your stats. There are good and bad ways of doing all science.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 134 Retweets ❤️ 1,873 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +4 🙂
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11) Colorful brain images have powerful persuasive powers. As does most stats. It's just generally good advice to understand what you're looking at.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 113 Retweets ❤️ 1,503 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood +5 🙂
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4) Here's another fact about that salmon though: it was dead and frozen at the time of the scan. The experiment was really just a test of the machine. After testing with a pumpkin and a Cornish game hen, they settled on the fish, which had several types of tissue.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 93 Retweets ❤️ 1,634 Favorites 2019 Dec 7 Mood -3 🙁