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What are your pet peeves about FMRI?

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Q999. What are your pet peeves about FMRI?
  1. Abbreviating "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" as "fMRI" rather than "FMRI".
  2. Referring to the analysis of functional image data as "functional analysis" (which is an entirely separate branch of mathematics over 80 years old).
  3. People who don't ever read the manuals, README.* files, or use the "BHelp" feature in AFNI, but instead bug me with questions like, "What does this button here do?" (that is to say, virtually everyone).
  4. The sentence, "I have a quick question" (particularly when uttered by anyone whose initials are PAB).
Note also that the choice of number for this question implies that eventually I'll run into the "FAQ 1K" problem, which will probably grind all civilization to a halt. Otherwise, note that AFNI is perforce Y2K compliant, since it only uses Unix date functions (which means that in the year 2037 or so, trouble may arise - if problems show up then, please contact me at my nursing home - I'll be the one saying, "When I was a kid, we'd never analyze brain data that way ...").

Ciao - Bob Cox
[last update to this file: 29 Apr 2002]

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    Created by Robert Cox
    Last modified 2005-08-01 14:53
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