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The study merely finds no significance difference. Which does not equate to no effect. More participants could have led to a significant difference. If the aut
by ImaCake 5y ago
The study merely finds no significance difference. Which does not equate to no effect. More participants could have led to a significant difference.
If the authors wanted to claim that there was no significant difference they can perform another statistical test for that where you invert the null and alternate hypothesis. It usually requires a bigger sample size because it is a harder hypothesis to prove.
- ImaCake 5y agoIf you are going to downvote me please explain to me why I am wrong. I am training to be a biostatistician so it is of professional interest to know if I have failed to explain something correctly or coherently.
- kortex 5y agoI don't know why you are being downvoted, this is 100% correct. It's the whole reason we do things like power analysis.
- ImaCake 5y agoThanks, I am glad to know my half finished Masters degree isn’t a total waste :)