> Significance was a word before statistics used it to define one of their concepts. Just because a field takes a word people used in everyday contexts and used

> Significance was a word before statistics used it to define one of their concepts. Just because a field takes a word people used in everyday contexts and used it to define something doesn't mean that the everyday meaning disappears. That doesn't answer what I asked: what exactly is the meaning here because I remain unconvinced that it's not simply an empty buzzword inserted that transferred from it's usage of statistics, especially when used in conjunction with percentages. > Edit: Another example is significant digits. Significant digits is a much older concept than significance in statistics, and maps much better to the original meaning of significance. Basically significant things are things you can't ignore when you do your analysis. Indeed, and that has a meaning that I understand which is also morphologically transparent, but in this supposed meaning of the word which you've to elaborate upon it is neither morphologically transparent, nor do I actually see any meaning in it and I still feel it's used as a buzzword to simply make use of a fancy word for it's own sake.