Barely Significant
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Lots of Lovely Numbers, but Why Does Everyone Make It So Difficult?

Patterns (N Y) · 2020 · PMC7660395 · PMID 33205100

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highly significantno p-value reported
Significant results (according to p values) are not a reason to act when effect sizes are low; with large administrative datasets and poor experimental design, it is easy to find a highly significant result of no research value whatsoever.

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