On the Tyranny of Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences

Gerd Gigerenzer, professor of psychology at the University of Salzburg (Austria), is coeditor, with L. Kruger, L.J. Daston, and M. Heidelberger, of The Probabilistic Revolution, Vol. 1: Ideas in History. •Zeno Swijtink is assistant professor f history and philosophy of science at Indiana University Bloomington. •Theodore Porter is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) and author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking. •Lorraine Daston is professor of the history of science at the University of Gottingen (Germany) and author of Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. •John Beatty is associate professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). •Lorenz Kruger is professor of philosophy at the University of Gottingen (Germany). •Geoffrey R. Loftus, professor of psychology at the University of Washington (Seattle), is coauthor, with E.F. Loftus of Essence of Statistics (2nd ed.).