That was our paper! We showed that you can get false positives (significant brain activity in this case) if fMRI if you don't use the proper statistical corrections. We did win an Ig Nobel for that work in 2012 - it was a ton of fun.
(I mention this so more people can know the list exists, and hopefully email us more nominations when they see an unusually great and interesting comment.)
Interesting -- I just use https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=168 for a weekly roundup, but that only tracks posts. Might need to supplement it with highlights or similar.
dang|2 months ago
(I mention this so more people can know the list exists, and hopefully email us more nominations when they see an unusually great and interesting comment.)
p.s. more on the salmon paper in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291600
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288560
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288557
jldugger|2 months ago
Reviewing the HN docs, https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments?h=168 might also be a good summary link.