http://prefrontal.org/blog/2010/01/quote-of-the-week-pashler/ A personal weblog of developmental cognitive neuroscience. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:08:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://prefrontal.org/blog/2010/01/quote-of-the-week-pashler/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Neuroskeptic Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:41:40 +0000 http://prefrontal.org/blog/?p=960#comment-292 I'd argue that a lot of the problems we have stem from the hellish complexity of data analysis combined with the deceptive simplicity of the analysis tools (FSL, SPM, BrainSurfer) - which make it very easy to do analyses, including bad ones. If everyone had to analyze their raw data by programming a MatLab script from scratch, we'd get very little done, but it would be good stuff, because it would mean everyone would know exactly what they were doing... I’d argue that a lot of the problems we have stem from the hellish complexity of data analysis combined with the deceptive simplicity of the analysis tools (FSL, SPM, BrainSurfer) – which make it very easy to do analyses, including bad ones. If everyone had to analyze their raw data by programming a MatLab script from scratch, we’d get very little done, but it would be good stuff, because it would mean everyone would know exactly what they were doing…

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