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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, And Society)

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Book Synopsis: “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, and philosophical 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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Are you tired of flawed statistical analysis dominating the world of science? Look no further than "The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives" by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. This groundbreaking book exposes the mass delusion that is statistical significance and shows us how it has led researchers astray in fields ranging from agronomy to zoology. With their wit and piercing logic, Ziliak and McCloskey dismantle the flawed technique of statistical significance and offer a path forward for scientists who want to fulfill the quantitative promise of their work. Don't be a victim of flawed analysis—get your copy today!

As renowned economist Thomas Schelling said, this book is an elementary, correct, and important argument that needs to be heard. The authors have been pushing this argument for years, but it still faces resistance. If it takes a book to finally get it across, then this is the book that will do it. The destructiveness of statistical significance has gone unnoticed for far too long, and it's time for us to recognize the harm it has caused to job prospects, justice, and even lives. Join the movement to correct this widespread mistake by reading "The Cult of Statistical Significance" today.

Picture a scientific bureaucracy that clings to statistical significance as if it were gospel. Well, Ziliak and McCloskey have had enough of this folly and are here to expose the truth. With humor, insight, and a nod to history, they reveal the deep flaws of this substitute for thoughtful analysis. The quest for statistical significance has become a veil that hides the real analysis needed in today's scientific research. Let's be the ones who break free from this delusion and admit that the emperor has no clothes. Order your copy of "The Cult of Statistical Significance" and join the revolution.

Now that you know the extent of the disaster that is statistical significance, it's time to trace the problem back to its roots. Ziliak and McCloskey dive into the historical, sociological, and philosophical aspects of this flawed technique, offering an in-depth understanding of how we got to this point. It's time for the scientific community to wake up and realize the harm that statistical significance has caused. If you want to be a part of the solution and help get the statistical sciences back on track, then "The Cult of Statistical Significance" is a must-read. Get your hands on this eye-opening book today!

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