October 11, 2015

Annals of Social Science, or Annulment of Social Science?

(Steven Hayward) Don't miss Andrew Ferguson's cover feature "Making It All Up" in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard on the various scandals besetting behavioral science (though as we've observed here several times, the problem of scientific fraud isn't limited to the social sciences by any means). This won't come as news to our regular readers, but still: Two economists recently wrote a little book called The Cult of Statistical Significance,

Source: Power Line