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100 1  McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen 
245 14 The Cult of Statistical Significance :|bHow the Standard 
       Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives 
264  1 Ann Arbor :|bUniversity of Michigan Press,|c2008 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    1 online resource (349 pages) 
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490 1  Economics, Cognition, and Society Ser 
505 0  Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A 
       Significant Problem -- 1. Dieting "Significance" and the 
       Case of Vioxx -- 2. The Sizeless Stare of Statistical 
       Significance -- 3. What the Sizeless Scientists Say in 
       Defense -- 4. Better Practice: beta-Importance vs. alpha-
       "Significance" -- 5. A Lot Can Go Wrong in the Use of 
       Significance Tests in Economics -- 6. A Lot Did Go Wrong 
       in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- 7. Is 
       Economic Practice Improving? -- 8. How Big Is Big in 
       Economics? -- 9. What the Sizeless Stare Costs, 
       Economically Speaking -- 10. How Economics Stays That Way:
       The Textbooks and the Referees -- 11. The Not-Boring Rise 
       of Significance in Psychology -- 12. Psychometrics Lacks 
       Power -- 13. The Psychology of Psychological Significance 
       Testing -- 14. Medicine Seeks a Magic Pill -- 15. 
       Rothman's Revolt -- 16. On Drugs, Disability, and Death --
       17. Edgeworth's Significance -- 18. "Take 3sigma as 
       Definitely Significant": Pearson's Rule -- 19. Who Sits on
       the Egg of Cuculus Canorus? Not Karl Pearson -- 20. Gosset
       : The Fable of the Bee -- 21. Fisher: The Fable of the 
       Wasp -- 22. How the Wasp Stung the Bee and Took over Some 
       Sciences -- 23. Eighty Years of Trained Incapacity: How 
       Such a Thing Could Happen -- 24. What to Do -- A Reader's 
       Guide -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index 
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650  0 Statistical hypothesis testing - Social aspects 
655  4 Electronic books 
700 1  Ziliak, Steve 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aMcCloskey, Deirdre Nansen|tThe Cult of 
       Statistical Significance : How the Standard Error Costs Us
       Jobs, Justice, and Lives|dAnn Arbor : University of 
       Michigan Press,c2008|z9780472050079 
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