Imagine if you could do scans on children at the beginning of a school year, and spend the year running study groups of various types of educational styles and then see what impact those styles had on brain development. The first stage to making a recognition have impact is having some metric to use for evaluation.
I think this study does have potential impact as a metric.
Indeed it might. The problem that I have with the college research funding is they don’t research things with practical value that our capitalistic system tends to miss. For instance herbal medicines would be a great area to research, big Pharma has. No Desire to do so because there’s no money in it you can’t Patent natural substances. But there are many natural substances that have a history of fighting cancer. 0 research.
The students are interested and creating papers that will advance their careers not in discovering anything. So we find things that’s fit the halls of Academia, not the streets of America where all the money is extracted from to pay for all these very expensive studies.