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almost significant

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p=0.06

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The AA-Med scale showed quadratic crude association and even after adjustment for the other factors the association remained with the number of correct and blank answers, and almost significant quadratic adjusted association with the number of wrong answers for the Immunology examination (Table 2 and Fig. 1 ).
While genotype and training × genotype had an almost significant effect on the MD in CS+ trials with SERT −/− rats showing slower speed of response in the initial trial bins ( Fig. 1K , Table S1 ), the influence of training on MD was different in both genotypes for CS− trials with incorrect responses and SERT +/+ rats eventually showed a slower speed of response in the last trial bin (SERT +/+ rats: 1,189 ± 302 ms, SERT −/− rats: 859 ± 294 ms).
In this work, we follow Dienes’ recommendation from Understanding Psychology as a Science that determining significance with p-values is an absolute cut-off, and to report only greater or less than the alpha to limit the temptation to interpret anything as “almost significant”, which is not possible under frequentist statistics.
Age and familiarity effects on musical memory.
PLoS One · 2024 · PMC11268704