McCloskey, Deirdre; Ziliak, Stephen - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (2008) 1, pp. 39-55
After William Gosset (1876-1937), the 'Student' of Student's t, the best statisticians have distinguished economic (or agronomic or psychological or medical) significance from merely statistical 'significance' at conventional levels. A singular exception among the best was Ronald A. Fisher, who...