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One thing neither this article nor the linked study measure is if there is a difference in this behavior between boys and girls. I looked through the actual art
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
One thing neither this article nor the linked study measure is if there is a difference in this behavior between boys and girls. I looked through the actual article to see if there was a statement that said if there was a statistical difference between the two or not, but although they do specify the numbers for the genders of the participants in the study, none of the analysis does any comparison between the genders.
It would be fascinating to see if there are gender differences in this behavior in childhood and adulthood and compare childhood and adulthood.
- SftwreEngnr 6y agoDid you mean to say sex, not gender?
- habitue 6y agoWith only 37 adults, there probably wasn't enough power to say anything significant about gender
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoBut even then a statement, “there was no difference between genders, p=...” would have been useful
- jiggunjer 6y agoNot really. Even if there was was medium sized true difference they'd probably not detect it.
- renewiltord 6y agoThey weren't testing that hypothesis, so that's why they didn't do this. If you go back and torture the data like this, you'll get acne from green jellybeans.
- jiggunjer 6y agoNot if you correct for multiple comparisons.