The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives
Abstract
Statistical significance, a technique that dominates medicine, economics, psychology, and many other scientific fields, has been a huge mistake. The outcome is a case study in bad science - how it originates and how it grows. These sciences, from agronomy to zoology, the authors find, engage null that doesn't test and estimating that doesn't estimate. Heedless of magnitude and of a genuine engagement with alternative hypotheses, they testimate....
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Title
The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives
Published Date
Sep 1, 2008
Journal
Volume
46
Issue
01
Pages
46 - 0372
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