Cognitive strategy use and measured numeric ability in immediate- and long-term recall of everyday numeric information.

PLoS One · 2013 · PMC3590296 · PMID 23483964

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did not reach statistical significancep = .06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The effect of numeric ability on average recall approached but did not reach statistical significance, F (1, 92) = 3.62, p = .06, and its effect on the forgetting contrast was also non-significant, F (1, 92) = .34, p>.05.

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Indeed, a post-hock analysis indicated that our tests of numeric ability were under-powered, even though they approached significance.

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