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Commentary on “how significant are nonsignificant differences?”
Author(s) -
Lamb William G.,
Neie V. E.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660130410
Subject(s) - warrant , null hypothesis , value (mathematics) , significant difference , psychology , p value , alternative hypothesis , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , econometrics , mathematical economics , epistemology , philosophy , economics , financial economics
For example, rather than reject or not reject the null hypothesis on the basis of whether the probability level is less than or greater than 0.05, one would report that p = 0.07, say, and then let the reader decide whether this value is sufficiently small to warrant the conclusion that something other than chance is producing the difference, i.e., the treatment.