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The Cult of Statistical Significance

Posted by: Thomas Scheff Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara October 25, 2009, 3:48 pm I would like to discuss a 2008 book: The Cult of Statistical Significance, by S.Ziliak and D. McCloskey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Although based in economics, there are three action-packed chapters on psychology and the social sciences. In my opinion, to the extent that the book's thesis is correct, it has immediate revolutionary implications for the quantitative social and behavioral sciences. Of great interest is the section on the attempt by one journal to require effect size statistics in all submissions.

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