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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen Thomas Ziliak
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Description for The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
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The Cult of Statistical Significance shows, field by field, how “statistical significance,” a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ “testing” that doesn’t test and “estimating” that doesn’t estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide ... Read more
The Cult of Statistical Significance shows, field by field, how “statistical significance,” a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ “testing” that doesn’t test and “estimating” that doesn’t estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Economics, Cognition & Society
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472050079
SKU
V9780472050079
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About Stephen Thomas Ziliak
Stephen T. Ziliak is the author or editor of many articles and two books. He currently lives in Chicago, where he is Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University. Deirdre N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of twenty books and three hundred scholarly articles. She ... Read more
Reviews for The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”- Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of ... Read more