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The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

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An edition of The cult of statistical significance (2008)

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

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Another report from the struggle to dethrone Fisherite statistical-significance tests as a measure of the quality and importance of experimental results.

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University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
321

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Subjects

Statistical methods, Statistical hypothesis testing, Social aspects, Economics, Social aspects of Statistics, Statistics, Social aspects of Statistical hypothesis testing, Non-parametric statistics, 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research, Statistical reliability, Scientific policy, Statistical tests, Economics, statistical methods

People

W. Edwards Deming, Ronald A. Fisher, William S. Gosset, William Kruskal, Jerzy Neyman, Egon S. Pearson, Karl Pearson

Times

the 20th century

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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
January 5, 2008, University of Michigan Press
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The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives
2008, University of Michigan Press
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
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First Sentence

"For the past eighty years it appears that some of the sciences have made a mistake by basing decisions on statistical “significance.”"

Table of Contents

Contents
Page ix
Preface
Page xv
Acknowledgments
Page xix
A Significant Problem
Page 1
1. Dieting “Significance” and the Case of Vioxx
Page 23
2. The Sizeless Stare of Statistical Significance
Page 33
3. What the Sizeless Scientists Say in Defense
Page 42
4. Better Practice: ̱β-Importance vs. α-“Significance”
Page 57
5. A Lot Can Go Wrong in the Use of Significance Tests in Economics
Page 62
6. A Lot Did Go Wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s
Page 74
7. Is Economic Practice Improving?
Page 79
8. How Big Is Big in Economics?
Page 89
9. What the Sizeless Stare Costs, Economically Speaking
Page 98
10. How Economics Stays That Way: The Textbooks and the Referees
Page 106
11. The Not-Boring Rise of Significance in Psychology
Page 123
12. Psychometrics Lacks Power
Page 131
13. The Psychology of Psychological Significance Testing
Page 140
14. Medicine Seeks a Magic Pill
Page 154
15. Rothman’s Revolt
Page 165
16. On Drugs, Disability, and Death
Page 176
17. Edgworth’s Significance
Page 187
18. “Take 3σ as Definitely Significant”: Pearson’s Rule
Page 193
19. Who Sits on the Egg of Cuculus Canorus? Not Karl Pearson
Page 203
20. Gosset: The Fable of the Bee
Page 207
21. Fisher: The Fable of the Wasp
Page 214
22. How the Wasp Stung the Bee and Took over Some Sciences
Page 227
23. Eighty Years of Trained Incapacity: How Such a Thing Could Happen
Page 238
24. What to Do
Page 245
A Reader’s Guide
Page 253
Notes
Page 255
Works Cited
Page 265
Index
Page 289

Edition Notes

Published in
Ann Arbor, USA
Series
Economics, Cognition, and Society
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.01́'5195—dc22
Library of Congress
HB137.Z55 2007, HB137 .Z55 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxiii, 321
Number of pages
321

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Open Library
OL10341945M
Internet Archive
cultofstatistica0000unse
ISBN 10
0472050079
ISBN 13
9780472050079
LCCN
2007035401
OCLC/WorldCat
168717577
Wikidata
Q100868781
Library Thing
5063999
Goodreads
2552158

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