"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 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. The quest for statistical significance that
pervades science today is a deeply flawed substitute for thoughtful
analysis. . . . Yet few participants in the scientific bureaucracy
have been willing to admit what Ziliak and McCloskey make clear:
the emperor has no clothes."--Kenneth Rothman, Professor of
Epidemiology, Boston University School of Health "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 the disaster is, and how bad for
science, and it traces the problem to its historical, sociological,
andphilosophical roots. 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 has held Guggenheim and National Humanities
Fellowships. She is best known for "How to Be Human* Though an
Economist "(University of Michigan Press, 2000) and her most recent
book, "The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
"(2006).
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