The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

by Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Stephen T. Ziliak

Book Overview

"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

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050079
• ISBN13: 9780472050079
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"