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approaching significance

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p=0.09

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The fact that Versius performed worse in the immediate postoperative period in terms of perceived sexual function contrasts, to some extent, with the high rate of positive surgical margins (40%), with a p-value approaching significance not in comparison with Da Vinci, but rather with Hugo RAS.
Discussion Participants with false intent showed a significantly lower blink count difference and lower number of blinks for the Explosive Intent questions as compared to the Drug Intent questions, with the difference in maximum blink duration approaching significance, as compared to participants with truthful intent.
Detecting false intent using eye blink measures.
Front Psychol · 2013 · PMC3795311
This has been a topic of discussion in the social sciences, with some scholars suggesting that “approaching significance” can be used to interpret the marginal significance (e.g., Blake & Gangestad, 2020 ; Salvador et al., 2020 ), while others argue that the established statistical significance standard should be applied and that findings of marginal significance are not statistically significant (e.g., Olsson-Collentine et al., 2019 ).
After 3 months, group therapy outperformed standard individual therapy ( d =1.270, p<0.001), with the difference approaching significance 1 year after therapy onset. 43 The trial involved children aged 3 years to 6 year and 11 months, corresponding to the age range of the present study.