The Cult of statistical significance - A Review

Sripad Motiram ()
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Sripad Motiram: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

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Abstract: I present a review and extended discussion of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented upon. For this review, I draw upon several other works on statistics and my personal experiences as a teacher of undergraduate econometrics.

Keywords: Significance; Standard Error; Application of Statistics; Methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2014-09
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