Researchers treat the reporting of statistical significance in many different ways in their written reports. Some use words such as significant (assuming that if something is significant, it is statistically so) or the entire phrase statistically significant. But some also use the phrase marginally significant, where the probability associated with a finding might be .04, or nearly significant, where the probability is something like .06. What to do? You’re the boss, if your own data are being analyzed or if you are reviewing someone else’s. Use your noodle and consider all the dimensions of
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