The NC group also completed the first trial faster than the RO group, however the difference failed to reach statistical significance (p = 0.198).
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Transfer of training-Virtual reality training with augmented multisensory cues improves user experience during training and task performance in the real world.
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236, 285, 310 - More importantly, best practices suggest it is misleading and inappropriate to refer to 0.1 > p > 0.05 as a “trend towards significance.” One way to appreciate this is to consider p values less than but close to 0.05, which by the same logic indicate a “trend toward non-significance.” Some recent views on this are here: https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2215 https://academic.oup.com/bja/article/115/3/337/312358 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440716/ It is highly preferred to use phrases like “failed to reach significance” or simply “not significantly different” for such results, and any conclusions made based on them (including in Discussion) should be removed, or else described as a possibility that must be evaluated in future research.
This experiments reported here, however, are a continuation of Cooper et al (2018) where we found highly significant differences in subjective and objective measures (effect sizes Cohen’s d=3.8, objective, and d=5.63, subjective) when comparing the two VR conditions chosen for the experiments reported in this study.