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  1. 🧵
    > ... unethical behaviour during the report of results is.. P hacking... frequent in research.. [of a] clinical nature... two main reasons.. First, scientists are often evaluated by the number and quality of publications, and sometimes this pressure to get sig­nificant results makes some scientists cherry-pick their results. Second (and more frequent), some inexperienced analysts are unaware of the importance of #MultipleTesting and think this is
    OK. But it is not! #PHacking
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  2. New paper provides a history of “voodoo science,” which discusses the controversy surrounding Vul et al.’s (2009) controversial article “Puzzlingly High Correlations in FMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition.”

    Five quotes follow: 🧵👉

    🔓 doi.org/10.3390/socsci12010015

    #MetaScience
    #Neuroscience
    #Neuroimaging
    #MetaResearch
    #PsychMethods
    #ReplicationCrisis
    #PhilosophyOfScience
    #PhilSci
    #Fmri
    #VoodooCorrelations
    #UseNovelty
    #MultipleTesting