Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture.

Front Psychol · 2015 · PMC4493367 · PMID 26217255

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closest p · 1.2× alpha

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boldest claim

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approaching an acceptable significance levelp = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Similarly, the presence of tilt/shake and shrug were both approaching an acceptable significance level [tilt/shake χ 2 (1, 31) = 3.54, p = 0.059 and shrug χ 2 (1, 31) = 3.54, p = 0.059].

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a near-significant trendp = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The results of a chi-square test showed a near-significant trend ( p = 0.07) for the presence of isolated sí “yes” responses in rejecting vs. confirming answers [χ 2 (1, 48) = 3.08, p = 0.07].

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