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MileyCyrus comments on [Link] Should Psychological Neuroscience Research Be Funded? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 18 April 2013 12:43:20PM 12 points [-]

If you like psychology research say "I'm sure this is much more efficient than the wars or farm subsidies the government was going to use this money on."

If you don't like psychology research say "This is an outrage! We could preventing malaria with that money"

Comment author: CarlShulman 18 April 2013 05:07:02PM 9 points [-]

Or "mostly the same science funding agencies fund both fMRI and non-fMRI psychology with mostly fixed budgets, so they should reallocate funding away from fMRI and towards studies with sample sizes large enough to be adequately powered for finding real effects."

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 April 2013 03:12:15PM 0 points [-]

Another way would be to start allocate funding for the replication of previous studies.

Comment author: Mestroyer 19 April 2013 05:04:58AM 1 point [-]

Is there a name for this fallacy? I have seen it a lot of places before.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2013 08:41:10AM 0 points [-]

Yep. I noticed that in myself, too.

Comment author: seraphnb 20 April 2013 01:18:51PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, same here. I guess I need to update my beliefs.

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