Barely Significant
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Lessons from a catalogue of 6674 brain recordings.

Elife · 2022 · PMC9200404 · PMID 35703370

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closest p · 1.0× alpha
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on the cusp of significanceP= .05actually significant
The first misunderstanding is that an effect on the cusp of significance ( P= .05) has a 95% chance of successful replication, when in fact the probability of successful replication is only 50% (power = 0.5).

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