Stephen T Ziliak
Biographic Data
| ID | 999391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen T Ziliak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen T |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziliak |
| SIGNATURE | ZILIAK S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roosevelt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9758-4297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deirdrest
of Siskel and Ebert fameas members.Louis Sullivan, a giant of modernist architecture, had spilled liquor and tears scribbling his memoir at the storied Club.I drank a couple of Guinness with Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch and took to the podium anyway.Needless to say, I tried to keep it light and say as little as possible about Sandburg-and-Debs socialism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and statistical significance.Deirdre and I met 30 years …
Statistical significance and scientific misconduct
A science, business, or law that is basing its validity on the level of p -values, t statistics and other tests of statistical significance is looking less and less relevant and more and more unethical. Today’s economist uses a lot of wit putting a clever index of opportunity cost into his models; but then, like the amnesiac, he fails to see opportunity cost in statistical estimates he makes of those same models. Medicine, psychology, pharmacolog…
Public Assistance
Retrospectives
In economics and other sciences, "statistical significance" is by custom, habit, and education a necessary and sufficient condition for proving an empirical result. The canonical routine is to calculate what's called a t-statistic and then to compare its estimated value against a theoretically expected value of it, which is found in "Student's" t table. A result yielding a t-value greater than or equal to about 2.0 is said to be "statistically si…
Why I left Alan Greenspan to seek economic significance
If progressive economists are serious about changing what is valued in the economics research paper—and therefore in real-world decisionmaking in courts and hospitals and the World Bank—they should insist in their own research journals that current usage of statistical significance has no theoretical justification. If Marxist journals hurry up and change their ways they can beat to the punch the most prestigious journal of economics in the world,…
Haiku Economics, No. 2
Haiku is walking quietly with a big stick or swinging wildly with a quiet calm. Simplicity and speed are the strengths of haiku, courted by prudence. Haiku is about getting things done, sizing things up, getting thee on. Economics is by contrast, even in Marxian hands, the science of prudence—the socially legitimizing grammar of what's low-cost, what's efficient. “Haiku economics” may then serve a purpose. As if economics were so efficient
Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State
If replacing welfare with private charity has increased the self-reliance of the poor, the benefits would be observed in the charity organization movement of the late nineteenth century. Inebriation would subside, the heart would be cheered, earnings would rise, the “broken” would be “complete,” dependence would wither, and the classes would converge. If the benefits were large, they would have been large in Indianapolis—the beacon of charity in …
Haiku Economics
Pauper Fiction in Economic Science
The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during America's period of industrialization and its greatest economic downturns. Yet economists had surprisingly little to say about the facts of almshouse demography, and what they have written has been a rather bad fiction when seen in contrast with American novels. The main object of the paper is to delineate typical characters and characteristics of almshouses in America, and to…
Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State
If replacing welfare with private charity has increased the self-reliance of the poor, the benefits would be observed in the charity organization movement of the late nineteenth century. Inebriation would subside, the heart would be cheered, earnings would rise, the “broken” would be “complete,” dependence would wither, and the classes would converge. If the benefits were large, they would have been large in Indianapolis—the beacon of charity in …
Retrospectives
In economics and other sciences, "statistical significance" is by custom, habit, and education a necessary and sufficient condition for proving an empirical result. The canonical routine is to calculate what's called a t-statistic and then to compare its estimated value against a theoretically expected value of it, which is found in "Student's" t table. A result yielding a t-value greater than or equal to about 2.0 is said to be "statistically si…
Statistical significance and scientific misconduct
A science, business, or law that is basing its validity on the level of p -values, t statistics and other tests of statistical significance is looking less and less relevant and more and more unethical. Today’s economist uses a lot of wit putting a clever index of opportunity cost into his models; but then, like the amnesiac, he fails to see opportunity cost in statistical estimates he makes of those same models. Medicine, psychology, pharmacolog…
Pauper Fiction in Economic Science
The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during America's period of industrialization and its greatest economic downturns. Yet economists had surprisingly little to say about the facts of almshouse demography, and what they have written has been a rather bad fiction when seen in contrast with American novels. The main object of the paper is to delineate typical characters and characteristics of almshouses in America, and to…
Haiku Economics
Pauper Fiction in Economic Science
The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during America's period of industrialization and its greatest economic downturns. Yet economists had surprisingly little to say about the facts of almshouse demography, and what they have written has been a rather bad fiction when seen in contrast with American novels. The main object of the paper is to delineate typical characters and characteristics of almshouses in America, and to…
Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State
If replacing welfare with private charity has increased the self-reliance of the poor, the benefits would be observed in the charity organization movement of the late nineteenth century. Inebriation would subside, the heart would be cheered, earnings would rise, the “broken” would be “complete,” dependence would wither, and the classes would converge. If the benefits were large, they would have been large in Indianapolis—the beacon of charity in …
Why I left Alan Greenspan to seek economic significance
If progressive economists are serious about changing what is valued in the economics research paper—and therefore in real-world decisionmaking in courts and hospitals and the World Bank—they should insist in their own research journals that current usage of statistical significance has no theoretical justification. If Marxist journals hurry up and change their ways they can beat to the punch the most prestigious journal of economics in the world,…
Haiku Economics, No. 2
Haiku is walking quietly with a big stick or swinging wildly with a quiet calm. Simplicity and speed are the strengths of haiku, courted by prudence. Haiku is about getting things done, sizing things up, getting thee on. Economics is by contrast, even in Marxian hands, the science of prudence—the socially legitimizing grammar of what's low-cost, what's efficient. “Haiku economics” may then serve a purpose. As if economics were so efficient
Retrospectives
In economics and other sciences, "statistical significance" is by custom, habit, and education a necessary and sufficient condition for proving an empirical result. The canonical routine is to calculate what's called a t-statistic and then to compare its estimated value against a theoretically expected value of it, which is found in "Student's" t table. A result yielding a t-value greater than or equal to about 2.0 is said to be "statistically si…
Public Assistance
Statistical significance and scientific misconduct
A science, business, or law that is basing its validity on the level of p -values, t statistics and other tests of statistical significance is looking less and less relevant and more and more unethical. Today’s economist uses a lot of wit putting a clever index of opportunity cost into his models; but then, like the amnesiac, he fails to see opportunity cost in statistical estimates he makes of those same models. Medicine, psychology, pharmacolog…
Deirdrest
of Siskel and Ebert fameas members.Louis Sullivan, a giant of modernist architecture, had spilled liquor and tears scribbling his memoir at the storied Club.I drank a couple of Guinness with Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch and took to the podium anyway.Needless to say, I tried to keep it light and say as little as possible about Sandburg-and-Debs socialism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and statistical significance.Deirdre and I met 30 years …
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