Cult of Statistical Significance - How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives Ziliak Stephen Thomas Paperback
Cult of Statistical Significance - How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives Ziliak Stephen Thomas Paperback "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct,…
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Cult of Statistical Significance - How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives Ziliak Stephen Thomas Paperback
"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. It ought to." --Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics "With humor, insight, piercing logic and a nod to history, Ziliak and McCloskey show how economists--and other scientists--suffer from a mass delusion about statistical analysis. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it.
Yet few participants in the scientific bureaucracy have been willing to admit what Ziliak and McCloskey make clear: the emperor has no The quest for statistical significance that pervades science today is a deeply flawed substitute for thoughtful analysis. . . .