I would guess few psychiatrists can follow details of fMRI data processing methods, so their faith in it has another basis. Confronted with the extreme nebulosity of human mental dysfunction, having SOME authoritative knowledge source must be reassuring?
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Yes; some boring fields are afflicted with scientism/physics-envy without an external fan base. Fans and funders demanding and accepting fake answers make the problem much worse though.
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It is interesting for me to overhear this discussion. The way clinical sciences treat fMRI is *very very* different from the way cognitive neuroscience/psychology treat fMRI. The degree of skeptical/methods heavy content increases in the latter community.
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I know you tweeted some stuff and papers about it, but is there a tldr/ELI5 of the key difference there?
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