• 13igTyme@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    In the world of statistics anything over 5% is often considered statistically significant. How significant depends on context.

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      8 hours ago

      The phrase used in statistics is “p-values **below ** %5 are significant”.

      This refers to uncertainty around a parameter value. Not the proportional sample size.