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The only situations in which McCloskey appears to accept the usefulness of statistical significance is when it is cast into a strict, decision-theoretic Neyman-Pearson framework, the marker of which is the existence of an explicit loss function: “You can’t run science without a loss function” (McCloskey 1998, p. 118; cf. 1985b; 1992, p ... ................
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