| Description |
xxiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Economics, cognition, and society |
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Economics, cognition, and society.
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| Contents |
A significant problem -- 1. Dieting "significance" and the case of Vioxx -- 2. The sizeless stare of statistical significance -- 3. What the sizeless scientists say in defense -- 4. Better practice: [beta]-importance vs. [alpha]-"significance" -- 5. A lot can go wrong in the use of significance tests in economics -- 6. A lot did go wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- 7. Is economic practice improving? -- 8. How big is big in economics? -- 9. What the sizeless stare costs, economically speaking -- 10. How economics stays that way: the textbooks and the referees -- 11. The not-boring rise of significance in psychology -- 12. Psychometrics lacks power -- 13. The psychology of psychological significance testing -- 14. Medicine seeks a magic pill -- 15. Rothman's revolt -- 16. On drugs, disability, and death -- 17. Edgeworth's significance -- 18. "Take 3[sigma] as definitely significant": Pearson's rule -- 19. Who sits on the egg of Calculus Canorus? not Karl Pearson -- 20. Gosset: the fable of the bee -- 21. Fisher: the fable of the wasp -- 22. How the wasp stung the bee and took over some sciences -- 23. Eighty years of trained incapacity: how such a thing could happen -- 24. What to do -- A reader's guide |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index |
| Subject |
Economics -- Statistical methods.
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Statistics -- Social aspects.
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Statistical hypothesis testing -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
McCloskey, Deirdre N.
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| LC no. |
2007035401 |
| ISBN |
9780472070077 cloth alkaline paper |
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047207007X cloth alkaline paper |
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9780472050079 paperback alkaline paper |
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0472050079 paperback alkaline paper |
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