Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey, The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs us Jobs, Justice, and Lives.

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  • Victor Thiessen Dalhousie University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs6276

Author Biography

Victor Thiessen, Dalhousie University

Victor Thiessen is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, and Academic Director of the Atlantic Research Data Centre. His work in the past twenty years has focussed on youth transitions, an area in which he has published extensively. His current investigations focus on the various pathways along which young Canadians navigate their way from schooling to employment. Together with Jörg Blasius (University of Bonn) he is writing a book for Sage Publications entitled A Guide to Using and Understanding Secondary Data: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data.

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Published

2009-05-29

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Book Reviews/Comptes rendus