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Many science words do not mean the same thing as common usage, that’s just the deal when some people need to be extremely precise and other people don’t while u
by colechristensen 4y ago
Many science words do not mean the same thing as common usage, that’s just the deal when some people need to be extremely precise and other people don’t while using the same language.
Scientific literature is written for a scientific audience, if the reader doesn’t understand something, that’s on them not the language of the writer. There needs to be space for scientific communication without worrying about the politics of who is going to misunderstand it.
- kuhewa 4y agoThe word 'significantly' in this case appears in the lead of a one minute long press release, that isn't scientific literature. So it is a bit ambiguous and best practice would be to use 'substantial' or similar, because if it is being used to refer to statistical significance and not effect size in the press release it can just be omitted, should be a given that a positive result was significant.