The Cult of Statistical Significance
Subtitle: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: January 5, 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780472050079
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Probability & statistics; Research methods: general; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Econometrics; History & Theory - General; Probability & Statistics - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Economics - Theory
First sentence: For the past eighty years it appears that some of the sciences have made a mistake by basing decisions on statistical “significance.”
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xv; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xix; title: A Significant Problem
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Dieting “Significance” and the Case of Vioxx
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: The Sizeless Stare of Statistical Significance
pagenum: 33; label: 3
title: What the Sizeless Scientists Say in Defense
pagenum: 42; label: 4
title: Better Practice: ̱β-Importance vs. α-“Significance”
pagenum: 57; label: 5
title: A Lot Can Go Wrong in the Use of Significance Tests in Economics
pagenum: 62; label: 6
title: A Lot Did Go Wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s
pagenum: 74; label: 7
title: Is Economic Practice Improving?
pagenum: 79; label: 8
title: How Big Is Big in Economics?
pagenum: 89; label: 9
title: What the Sizeless Stare Costs, Economically Speaking
pagenum: 98; label: 10
title: How Economics Stays That Way:  The Textbooks and the Referees
pagenum: 106; label: 11
title: The Not-Boring Rise of Significance in Psychology
pagenum: 123; label: 12
title: Psychometrics Lacks Power
pagenum: 131; label: 13
title: The Psychology of Psychological Significance Testing
pagenum: 140; label: 14
title: Medicine Seeks a Magic Pill
pagenum: 154; label: 15
title: Rothman’s Revolt
pagenum: 165; label: 16
title: On Drugs, Disability, and Death
pagenum: 176; label: 17
title: Edgworth’s Significance
pagenum: 187; label: 18
title: “Take 3σ as Definitely Significant”: Pearson’s Rule
pagenum: 193; label: 19
title: Who Sits on the Egg of Cuculus Canorus?  Not Karl Pearson
pagenum: 203; label: 20
title: Gosset: The Fable of the Bee
pagenum: 207; label: 21
title: Fisher: The Fable of the Wasp
pagenum: 214; label: 22
title: How the Wasp Stung the Bee and Took over Some Sciences
pagenum: 227; label: 23
title: Eighty Years of Trained Incapacity: How Such a Thing Could Happen
pagenum: 238; label: 24
title: What to Do
pagenum: 245; title: A Reader’s Guide
pagenum: 253; title: Notes
pagenum: 255; title: Works Cited
pagenum: 265; title: Index
pagenum: 289