TLDR; researchers at UC Santa Barbara, intending to show how statistics can be u...

		dhuramas on Nov 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon stu... TLDR; researchers at UC Santa Barbara, intending to show how statistics can be used misleadingly, received statistically significant results when scanning a salmon with fMRI to show that it's brain responded differently to photos of different social situations. The salmon was dead. (sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9t3bc4)