[ICPSR] [OR-Announce] Webinar- Deirdre McCloskey: Almost Never Use Tests of Statistical Significance

[Mark Thompson-Kolar]

 Join us for a Webinar on *Monday, October 28, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT*
No registration required
Visit https://connect.umms.med.umich.edu/mccloskey/ and enter as a *Guest*


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* Description:* Existence, arbitrary statistical significance,
philosophical possibilities uncalibrated to the sizes of important effects
in the world are useless for science. Yet in medical science, in population
biology, in much of sociology, political science, psychology, and
economics, in parts of literary study, there reigns the spirit of the
Mathematics or Philosophy Departments (appropriate in their own fields of
absolutes). The result, argues economist *Deirdre McCloskey*, has been a
catastrophe for such sciences, or former sciences. The solution is simple:
get back to seeking oomph. It would be wrong, of course, to abandon math or
statistics. But they need every time to be put into a context of How Much,
as they are in chemistry, in most biology, in history, and in engineering
science.

A related interview with Deirdre McCloskey (PhD, Economics, Harvard) can be
found here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/mccloskey.html

For more information:

   - Announcement: http://tinyurl.com/DMcCloskey
   - Her website: www.deirdremccloskey.com
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