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yukkuri | 2 years ago

This is going to turn out to be the new phrenology, completely flawed, but it won't stop phobic types from using it to "prove" their antisocial theories.

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throwawa14223|2 years ago

If it works well isn't it not similar to phrenology?

rcxdude|2 years ago

I think the implication is it doesn't actually work well. Running hard-to-explain models on brain scans has a history of producing papers which fail to reproduce, there were a bunch of bunk results in fMRI research a few years ago.