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11.  The Rhetoric of Significance Testing and Econometrics

(see also Chps. 7 and 8 in The Rhetoric of Economics [2nd ed, 1998]
and Chp. 2 in The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie [1996])
 
[68] ”The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests,” American Economic Review, Supplement 75 (2, May 1985): 201-205.
 
[132] “Why Economic Historians Should Stop Relying on Statistical Tests of Significance, and Lead Economists and Historians into the Promised Land,” Newsletter of the Cliometric Society.  2 (2, Nov 1986): 5-7.
 
[141] “Rhetoric Within the Citadel: Statistics,”  pp. 485-490 in J.W. Wenzel at al., eds., Argument and Critical Practice: Proceedings of the Fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987); reprinted in C. A. Willard and G. T. Goodnight, eds., Public Argument and Scientific Understanding (1993). 
 
[156,2] “The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance,” Eastern Economic Journal  18 (Summer 1992): 359-361 (also in Other Brief Academic Items, [156] (2) below).
 
[88] “The Art of Forecasting, Ancient to Modern Times,”  Cato Journal  12 (1, Spring/Summer 1992): 23-43.
 
 [213]  “The Insignificance of Statistical Significance,” Scientific American  (Apr 1995): 32-33.
 
[184] [with Stephen Ziliak] “The Standard Error of Regression.”  Journal of Economic Literature, Mar 1996: pp. 97-114.
 
[239] “Aunt Deirdre’s Letter to a Graduate Student” Eastern Economic Journal 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
 
"Cassandra’s Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues” Eastern Economic Journal 25 (3, Summer 1999):
 
[239] “Two Vices: Proof and Significance,” unplublished paper presented at the AEA session in Chicago, Jan 3, 1998.
 
"Beyond Merely Statistical Significance."  Statement of editorial policy, Feminist Economics, forthcoming, 2000.""