Annals of Statistics: Emotion Perception in Dead Salmon

CSGnet Archive CSG2009
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[From Mike Acree (2009.09.22.0859 PDT)]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

This article is similar in substance to work by George
Spencer Brown in the early 1950s, where he published impressive results of an
ESP experiment, then subsequently revealed that the data came from a standard
table of random numbers. (I can’t find the reference at the moment,
but this article gives some of the ideas:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v172/n4369/pdf/172154a0.pdf.)

Mike

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[From Rick Marken (2009.09.22.0915)]

Mike Acree (2009.09.22.0859 PDT)--

Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings | WIRED

I love it!! We need more dead controls in psychology;-)

Best

Rick

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This article is similar in substance to work by George Spencer Brown in the
early 1950s, where he published impressive results of an ESP experiment,
then subsequently revealed that the data came from a standard table of
random numbers.� (I can�t find the reference at the moment, but this article
gives some of the ideas:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v172/n4369/pdf/172154a0.pdf.)

Mike

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Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com