New Scientist -- THERE is fresh evidence that the budding field of social neuroscience is producing misleading results because of statistical methods often used to analyse brain scans. In January, Hal Pashler of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues, sparked controversy when they criticised the statistical methods used by a clutch of high-profile research teams to link brain activity to emotions. They said the teams’ results could be inflated because random noise was not properly accounted for.
