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approaching significance

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p=0.09

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In the literature

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 ).