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Re:Risk of false positives in fMRI of post-mortem Atlantic s... by ars on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:31AM (#15598798)
Did it help? Did people understand the message you were sending and take corrective action?
Re:Risk of false positives in fMRI of post-mortem Atlantic s... by prefrontal on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:42AM (#15598825)
Yeah, actually, we feel like it did serve as a solid illustration as to why proper statistical correction is necessary. We had a lot of emails saying what a useful tool it was for lab meetings and classes.

We did a review of the literature as part of our paper. In 2008 something like 30% of papers in major journals used uncorrected stats. In 2012 it was under 10%. The field was certainly already moving in the right direction, but I think we managed to help things along.