Small Gray Matters

Select a few neuroimaging papers at random and you’re likely to come across a handful of statements in the introduction to the effect that the topic under study is of “increasing interest”. At conferences and research talks, you’ll sometimes see speakers invoke a familiar kind of figure that looks something like this:

That’s the number of […]

I’d like to title this post “a power primer,” but that’s the title of a 1992 Psychological Bulletin article by Jacob Cohen (the god of power analysis, now deceased). So instead I’ve titled it “a primer on power.” By changing a few words around I’ve very cleverly gone from academic plagiarism to paying homage. (And […]