The preference for potential in competence, not in morality: Asymmetric biases regarding a group's potential for moral improvement and decline.

PLoS One · 2020 · PMC7402473 · PMID 32750096

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marginally significantno p-value reported

Experiment 1: Do not use terms like: "marginally significant." This is a meaningless phrase that relies on a statistic being close to an arbitrary cutoff.

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Wilcoxon signed-rank tests showed that Company A (1.58) was ranked higher than Company B (2.07) ( Z = 3.12, p < .01) and Company C (2.35) ( Z = 3.02, p < .01), and Company B was ranked higher than Company C ( Z = 1.89, p = .06), although this result did not reach statistical significance.

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