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"Statistically significant" is another misleading one for most people I think. People not familiar with the phrase are going to understand it as "important" or
by seanwilson 3y ago
"Statistically significant" is another misleading one for most people I think. People not familiar with the phrase are going to understand it as "important" or "large effect". Something like "high confidence" would be better, along with reporting the effect size.
A lot of the time the effect size is low (and will probably disappear with better controls) so leaving this out and leaning on the term "significant" is good for clickbait.
- silent_cal 3y agoSame with "not statistically insignificant". People think for two things to be at all related they must be "statistically significantly" related, but it's not true.