Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak have graciously replied to my essay titled “Ziliak and McCloskey on Statistical … Significance: An Assessment.” Only a few of McCloskey and Ziliak’s extensive criticisms are valid or partially valid, and these … relate to points that can readily be dropped without materially weakening my conclusions. In particular, McCloskey and Ziliak …

Stephen Ziliak and D. N. McCloskey have sharply criticized the prevailing use of significance tests. Their work has, in …. This paper aims at a more balanced reading. While Ziliak and McCloskey claim that a substantial majority of economists who … scientific questions. I respond with counter-examples. Ziliak and McCloskey also complain that significance tests ignore loss …