Karl Popper's Superstitious Indeterminism : Is Statistics a Science?

This paper shows how a great philosopher, like Popper, can easily fall back to a common superstitious person. This paper also criticizes the general practice by statisticians to invent ad hoc method or manipulate data to suppress errors. Instead, this paper promotes the Xenophanes spirit of discovering from uncertainties and unknowns

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Choi, Hak
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Statistische Methodenlehre \| Statistical theory \| Wissenschaftliche Methode \| Scientific method \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (6 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 30, 2016 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2831928 [DOI]
Classification:	C10 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General. General ; C12 - Hypothesis Testing ; c18
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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