You might want to edit the title to “Four major problems with neuroscience”: as it is worded now, I took it to be about unanswered questions.
Very useful information and incredibly relevant for, among other things, rationality testing. I have some experience with these kinds of effects from my research on motor control, but it's good to keep them in the forefront of one's mind when designing studies.
You might want to edit the title to “Four major problems with neuroscience”: as it is worded now, I took it to be about unanswered questions.
Good point. Done.
A discussion of four errors which lead to false positives-- neglecting maturation (that brains change with time, even without intervention, learning effects (people who take a test more than once get better at it), regression to the mean (people who are unusually good or bad at something will probably have a more average score on subsequent attempts), and the placebo effect.
The link above is a summary of a lecture which isn't playing for me, so any further information about the lecture would be greatly appreciated.