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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by vharuck on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:47PM (#19446686)
It definitely needs to be left out of anything with non-statisticians in the intended audience. I've started leaving it out of most reports. If I write about a difference, it's statistically significant. The test just gives me confidence to write it.
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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by sidesentists on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:01PM (#19447438)
As someone who does a lot of meta-analyses I'd prefer you left in non-significant values as well, if they bear on the hypotheses at hand. Aggregating over nonsignificant effect sizes can still result in an overall effect that is significant.
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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by Fomite on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:17AM (#19449789)
This. A dozen "non-significant" studies that all have effects in the same magnitude and direction are telling you something.
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