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> No significant difference between women and men. {{citation needed}} The article crisply called out differences between men and women, on page 13. If your

by tjic 10y ago

> No significant difference between women and men. {{citation needed}} The article crisply called out differences between men and women, on page 13. If your argument is that these differences are not significant, could you point to the part of the paper that justifies that statement?

kiliancs 10y ago
From the abstract: "Interestingly, there is no statistical difference in the effects of working hours on cognitive functioning between men and women."
- betenoire 10y ago
  and of course in the paper itself: "However, we find that there is no statistically significant gender difference in the effects of working hours on cognitive functioning. "
  - rubber_duck 10y ago
    That's just saying that both experience negative effects after a threshold, but the threshold in the paper is different between genders so I wouldn't say there is no significant difference (like OP did), 3 extra hours over 27 total is >10%
    - cauterized 10y ago
      That's not what statistical significance means. Yes, 10% is "significant" in the sense that it would be enough for people to care about. The paper is saying that the sample size is too small to have any confidence that you'd still have a difference (or that the difference wouldn't go in the other direction) if you took a different sample of the population.
      - rubber_duck 10y ago
        OP said there is no significant difference, paper says statistically significant. But you are right it makes more sense that they are saying gender difference results were not statistically significant - I don't understand why even report them then ?
    - Noseshine 10y ago
      I don't get a "Reply" link under your later comment two levels down, so I reply here instead: > ...they are saying gender difference results were not statistically significant - > I don't understand why even report them then ? Because reporting a negative find is information too. What is the difference between not knowing and knowing there is nothing? Don't tell me there is none... :)
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by tjic 10y ago

kiliancs 10y ago

From the abstract: "Interestingly, there is no statistical difference in the effects of working hours on cognitive functioning between men and women."

betenoire 10y ago
and of course in the paper itself: "However, we find that there is no statistically significant gender difference in the effects of working hours on cognitive functioning. "
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  That's just saying that both experience negative effects after a threshold, but the threshold in the paper is different between genders so I wouldn't say there is no significant difference (like OP did), 3 extra hours over 27 total is >10%
  - cauterized 10y ago
    That's not what statistical significance means. Yes, 10% is "significant" in the sense that it would be enough for people to care about. The paper is saying that the sample size is too small to have any confidence that you'd still have a difference (or that the difference wouldn't go in the other direction) if you took a different sample of the population.
    - rubber_duck 10y ago
      OP said there is no significant difference, paper says statistically significant. But you are right it makes more sense that they are saying gender difference results were not statistically significant - I don't understand why even report them then ?
  - Noseshine 10y ago
    I don't get a "Reply" link under your later comment two levels down, so I reply here instead: > ...they are saying gender difference results were not statistically significant - > I don't understand why even report them then ? Because reporting a negative find is information too. What is the difference between not knowing and knowing there is nothing? Don't tell me there is none... :)
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