Barely Significant
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Response to comment on "Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans"</i>.

Elife · 2018 · PMC5898907 · PMID 29651982

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They reported a barely significant (p<0.04) improvement over chance performance data that they chose not to plot; however, their assay was still not significantly different from animals not fed iron that migrated in the presence of a magnet.

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