Comments on: Fashions fade, style is eternal

By: Joe Duncan

Joe Duncan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:45:45 +0000

Exactly.

By: Joe Duncan

Joe Duncan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:45:06 +0000

Isn’t that a bit like saying that most researchers find that New York, NY has a higher population than Nowhere, Alabama; therefore you’re more likely to get published in “Random Journal of American Demographics” if you study NY instead of Alabama?

I don’t see how the conclusion logically follows…

You *could* say that it’s not very likely you’ll get published if you find that Nowhere, Alabama has a higher population than New York City. But that only means you’re less likely to get published if your research is crap, and more likely to get published if your research is accurate.

By: babak

babak — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:44:58 +0000

hehe reminds me of this comic:
http://xkcd.com/1138/

By: J Zevin

J Zevin — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:51:06 +0000

This is fantastic! Just a few weeks ago I was thinking about how cognitive ontologies are anthropoplogical facts about cognitive neuroscientists. Now here's a wonderfully self-conscious demonstration of just that from the group that pioneered meta-analysis of brain imaging.