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Statistically “discernible” instead of “significant”?

Renaming "statistically significant" findings as "statistically discernible" shifts the frame from meaning to perception. It also suggests that effects that are statistically "indiscernible" may be so because they truly don't exist, because they are too small to be detected with the data at hand, or because there is such imprecision in our measurements to make almost any effect imperceptible. Continue reading

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