Shades of gray
What shade of gray would you say this is?
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What shade of gray would you say this is?
I spent three years working in fMRI labs. To this day it’s not clear to me if the field has exceptionally ambiguous standards, or if it’s only one of many scientific subfields based around new technology struggling to define good practice. Whether it’s got company or not, neuroimaging certainly has issues.
An opinion article from Iain Chalmers (of the very well regarded though not fully open access Cochrane Collaboration) and Paul Glasziou (of the Center for Evidence-based Medicine) discusses the high potential for waste in much research.
Found this interesting paper from a couple years ago: Detecting and Correcting the Lies that Data Tellby F Schmidt.
Dorothy Bishop critiques a 2003 neuroimaging paper: