This is what the salmon study was saying - if you did a whole brain analysis with fmri without an a priori prediction you need to adopt a radically more stringent threshold for significance
The salmon in the MRI was a bowl with a million jellybeans in it
This explanation is a really terrible explanation - it doesn’t even explain the point of the study or what multiple comparisons are in statistics…
https://xkcd.com/882/
This is what the salmon study was saying - if you did a whole brain analysis with fmri without an a priori prediction you need to adopt a radically more stringent threshold for significance
The salmon in the MRI was a bowl with a million jellybeans in it
The explanation was pretty good without going into the statistical details which is perfectly OK for most people on social media.