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This does seem quite bad, especially for trainees and people new to specific fields.

Very much did not intend that as negative! Imo the MRI field managed to solve many of the issues we face in systems neuro.

MRI is also a great success story of providing access to technical expertise, support, and amazing standardized analysis pipelines. Imo we can learn from this in other areas. Of course boundary pushing work (and analysis/stats) always requires depth on understanding how the sausage is made!

I was debating whether that was a good example or not. I agree with what you're saying, the major point I wanted to make was that there's a huge amount of complexity that's been packaged into a machine that a well trained non expert can use. This is not the case in many systems neuro experiments.