Weak Models, Nil Hypotheses, And Decorative Statistics
Is There Really No Hope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry O''Neill, Barry O’neill (Yale University, corresponding author), Barry O'Neill (Yale University) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 731-748 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002795039004007 |
| OpenAlex | W2032149687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
Donald Green and Ian Shapiro contend that rational choice models have made negligible contributions to the empirical study of politics. Published tests systematically violate some basic research principles, they say, and they ascribe the problem to modelers' universalist aim of explaining all human behavior. This review critiques some of the authors' principles, which seem to derive from an extreme form of Popperianism combined with norms around null hypothesis testing. Their attribution of universalism is exaggerated; what they are seeing is actually a desire to unify different selected areas, a basic goal in theoretical explanation. One advantage of rational choice models is that they frequently make precise predictions. Models that can do this offer an escape from the uninformative ritual of null hypotheses tests
Alternative hypothesis · Attribution · Econometrics · Economics · Epistemology · Null hypothesis · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rational choice theory (criminology · Statistical hypothesis testing · Statistics · Universalism · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social Psychology
Essays in positive economics
The Significance Test Controversy
Conjectures and Refutations
Psychology and Deterrence
Explanation and Scientific Understanding
Judgment under Uncertainty
Prospect Theory
Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind
Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories are Often Uninterpretable
The earth is round (p < .05)
Probability and falsification
Theory-Testing in Psychology and Physics
Studies in the Logic of Explanation
Things I have learned (so far)
Analyzing data
Ad Hoc Auxiliary Hypotheses and Falsificationism
Perspectives on Positive Political Economy
Reading Rational Choice Theory
Feminist Critiques of the Separative Model of Self
Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics
On the probability of making Type I errors
Consequences of prejudice against the null hypothesis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |