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Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1292
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160305
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STATISTICS AND SOCIETY:
Signifying Little

Theodore M. Porter

The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2008. 348 pp. $75, £48.95. ISBN 9780472070077. Paper, $24.95, £16.50. ISBN 9780472050079. Economics, Cognition, and Society.
Through their consideration of a wide range of fields (including their home discipline of economics, psychology, epidemiology, and biomedical science), the authors argue that statistical significance is far too often mistakenly applied--to the detriment of science and society.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, 6265 Bunche Hall, Box 951473, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473, USA. E-mail: tporter{at}history.ucla.edu

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