Neurobabble makes nonsense brain 'science' more believable

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"Previous researchers (e.g. Weisberg 2008 and Hook and Farah 2013) showed that completely made-up neuroscientific research carried weight “when paired with either a brain picture or a bar chart”."

And once again, PowerPoint is revealed as the work of <insert evil entity of your choice>.

re - Perhaps when your brain ..before the conscious mind can intervene.

Or unconscious mind, if you give a lot of 4X to it down the pub.

Of course true at times, but we are still responsible for our actions otherwise society simply will not work.

Is it chart

Please! I'm not some green graduate student who can be suckered into believing any old study simply because it has a bar chart pasted next to the words.

You've gotta put ERROR BARS on it before I start blindly accepting your diagrams.

Caps

I thought that The More Capitals something had The More Important and Obviously Authoratitive it is.

If you take a good thermal image of a desktop computer and analyse it carefully, you can probably figure out its current power state and whether it's running a videogame, or doing heavy network traffic, or idling. But there's no way in hell you can use that to figure out what videogame it's running, or what type of data is being transmitted on the network, or what's the desktop background.

The relationship between fMRI and psychology is pretty much the same.

I think this article is nonsense. The pictures aren't pretty enough to be serious

Personally I think most psychology is babble...

The idea that you can apply scientific method to an uncontrolled complex system is just wishful thinking.

Psychology is not a science it is in reality 100% guesses presented as being scientific but if it will help we can talk about it $1000/minute.