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I remember reading a paper back in grad school where the researchers put a dead salmon in the magnet and got statistically significant brain activity readings using whatever the analysis method à la mode was. It felt like a great candidate for the Ig Nobel awards.

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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.

This is one for https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights!

(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

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.

Reviewing the HN docs, https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments?h=168 might also be a good summary link.

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