Another phrase to avoid I think is "statically significant" or "significant". This is used even when the effect size is small, but people generally hear "signif

Another phrase to avoid I think is "statically significant" or "significant". This is used even when the effect size is small, but people generally hear "significant" and think "a large amount". Small effect sizes can come from experimental bias/flaws that disappear when better experiments are done later too. You also see it in the context of "the result wasn't statistically significant but was bigger than all the rest" as if that means something.