Barely Significant
← all excerpts

Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids.

PLoS One · 2025 · PMC12407481 · PMID 40901789

Europe PMCDOI
1
hedged sentence
0.0590
closest p · 1.2× alpha
0.0590
boldest claim

The sentences

did not reach statistical significancep = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Specifically, upon stratification by sex, males appeared more likely than females to spend 6 minutes or more on the toilet, though this difference did not reach statistical significance (χ2 = 3.56, p = 0.059).

also in 111,027 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.