Gender and Music Composition: A Study of Music, and the Gendering of Meanings.

Front Psychol · 2016 · PMC4815278 · PMID 27065903

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentences

0.0500

closest p · 1.0× alpha

0.0500

boldest claim

The sentences

highly significantp < 0.000not a probability at all

A highly significant difference was found [ t (70) = 4.531, p < 0.000] with music of male composers showing higher values (i.e., greater perceived femininity) than did works composed by females.

also in 132,142 other papers

failed to reach significancep = 0.05actually significant

Of the 420 inter-listener correlations, only 18 failed to reach significance at p = 0.05 level, and the majority were significant p < 0.001.

also in 4,113 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.