Barely Significant
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An empirical study of Q&A websites for game developers.

Empir Softw Eng · 2021 · PMC8374422 · PMID 34426725

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a decreasing trendp < .001actually significant
On Unity Answers, the number of active users showed an initial growth until 2014 ( p < .001) and a decreasing trend from late 2017 until early 2020 ( p < .001).

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an increasing trendno p-value reported
With this test, we test the null hypothesis of randomness against the alternative hypothesis of a decreasing or an increasing trend in the data.

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