The Cult of Statistical Significance¶
Ziliak, S. T., & McCloskey, D. N. (2008). The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives. University of Michigan Press.
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Primes¶
- Statistical Significance (p-Value)
This sourceZiliak-McCloskey critique of "stars culture" and conventional p-value over-reliance in economics.
Domain-specific¶
- Null Ritual
- Gigerenzer documents the pattern across psychology; Ioannidis (2005) in biomedical research and Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) in econometrics describe the same pathology in their fields
This sourceThe econometric documentation of significance-testing misuse, in a book whose home field is economics and which names psychology, sociology and medicine as sharing “the idol” of the significance test.
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- Gigerenzer documents the pattern across psychology; Ioannidis (2005) in biomedical research and Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) in econometrics describe the same pathology in their fields
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