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Null hypothesis significance testing is a scientific train-wreck, about which a small group of statisticians have been warning. This book shows how the wreck happened, and reports on the fatalities. It shows how wide the disaster is, and traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots.

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“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

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    A Paperback by Deirdre Nansen Mccloskey, Deirdre N. McCloskey

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/19/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472050079, 978-0472050079
      ISBN10: 0472050079
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Null hypothesis significance testing is a scientific train-wreck, about which a small group of statisticians have been warning. This book shows how the wreck happened, and reports on the fatalities. It shows how wide the disaster is, and traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots.

      Trade Review
      “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

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