Throughout most or all of the empirical sciences, significance testing is one of the most widely used statistical procedures. Unfortunately, it is also widely abused. In recent years, an increasing number of authors have expressed concern over such abuse; see, e.g., the book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) who focus mainly on economics, and Kruschke (2010) who focuses on cognitive sciences. In a...

through the advent of heterodox approaches in modern economic methodology, mccloskey's contribution on introducing rhetoric in methodology has been nominated as one of the most controversial propositions ever alleged in the literature. concerning new predominant perspectives in philosophy of language, this paper seeks to analyze the theoretical status of rhetoric in the methodology of econ...

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 many fields 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 h...

Throughout most or all of the empirical sciences, significance testing is one of the most widely used statistical procedures. Unfortunately, it is also widely abused. In recent years, an increasing number of authors have expressed concern over such abuse; see, e.g., the book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) who focus mainly on economics, and Kruschke (2010) who focuses on cognitive sciences. In a...

McCloskey and Zaragoza (1985) argue that misleading postevent suggestions do not affect the availability of originally encoded information. Their hypothesis stems from empirical work using a modified paradigm in which no effect of postevent information is observed. Although their "no impairment" hypothesis is plausible, careful consideration of the predictions of their experimental test suggest...

The industrial revolution initiated humanity's march towards wealth. Started in the 18th century England, it changed socio-institutional system of world, which continues to this day. There are many attempts explain revolution. One them, proposed by D. N. McCloskey, describes rise as a result widespread change society's opinion about creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. Along with politi...

Journal of Economic Methodology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713704064 The rhetoric of 'Signifying nothing': a rejoinder to Ziliak and McCloskey Kevin D. Hoover a; Mark V. Siegler b a Departments of Economics and Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC b Department of Economics, California S...

The UK doctor who is leading efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa and to ensure that the NHS is ready to deal with cases that might emerge in the United Kingdom has called for doctors and politicians to be consistent in their messages to the public. Brian McCloskey, director of global health for Public Health England and currently working in Geneva to help coord...

We thank Deirdre McCloskey for e-mail discussions and, with Stephen Ziliak, for providing us with the individual scores from their 1980s survey and for the individual scores broken down by question for the 1990s survey. We thank Ryan Brady for research assistance and and the participants in the UC Davis Macroeconomics Workshop for valuable comments on an earlier draft.

Author(s): Albertus, P; Anandan, V; Ban, C; Balsara, N; Belharouak, I; Buettner-Garrett, J; Chen, Z; Daniel, Doeff, M; Dudney, NJ; Dunn, B; Harris, SJ; Herle, S; Herbert, E; Kalnaus, Libera, JA; Lu, D; Martin, McCloskey, BD; McDowell, MT; Meng, YS; Nanda, Sakamoto, Self, EC; Tepavcevic, Wachsman, Wang, Westover, AS; Xiao, Yersak, T