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The cult of statistical significance: What economists should and should not do to make their data talk
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in economics and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present article argu... mehr
This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in economics and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present article argues that this is good advice in some research areas but not in others. Taking all issues which have appeared so far of the German Economic Review and a recent epidemiological meta-analysis as examples, it shows that there has indeed been a lot of misleading work in the context of significance testing, and that at the same time many promising avenues for fruitfully employing statistical significance tests, disregarded by Ziliak and McCloskey, have not been used.... weniger
Klassifikation
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Kritik; Statistische Methodenlehre; Statistischer Test; Theorie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
14 S.
Schriftenreihe
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 176
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75303
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
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