00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611134676 Buklod 20140221143845.0 aa r ||| u ta 070824s2008 miua rb s001 0|eng d 9780472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPD-00212406779 DLC DECON eng DMLUC HB 137 Z55 2008 Ziliak, Stephen Thomas 1963- The cult of statistical significance how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press c2008. xxiii, 321 p. ill. Economics, cognition, and society A significant problem -- Dieting "significance" and the case of Vioxx -- The sizeless stare of statistical significance -- What the sizeless scientists say in defense -- Better practice: [beta]-importance vs. [alpha]-"significance" -- A lot can go wrong in the use of significance tests in economics -- A lot did go wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- Is economic practice improving? -- How big is big in economics? -- What the sizeless stare costs, economically speaking -- How economics stays that way: the textbooks and the referees -- The not-boring rise of significance in psychology -- Psychometrics lacks power -- The psychology of psychological significance testing -- Medicine seeks a magic pill -- Rothman's revolt -- On drugs, disability, and death -- Edgeworth's significance -- "Take 3[sigma] as definitely significant": Pearson's rule -- Who sits on the egg of culculus canorus? Not Karl Pearson -- Gosset: the fable of the bee -- Fisher: the fable of the wasp -- How the wasp stung the bee and took over some sciences -- Eighty years of trained incapacity: how such a thing could happen -- What to do. Acquired through Health Policy Development Program (HPDP) research grant. Economics Statistical methods. Statistics Social aspects. Statistical hypothesis testing Social aspects. McCloskey, Deirdre N. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007035401.html FO Monograph UPD DECON HB 137 Z55 2008 Book