Michael Lipkin
Jun 20, 2021

Do you mean the difference between statistical significance and practical significance?

Something can be statistically significant but of no practical use (particularly if the sample size is large and the effect small)

There is no formal definition of practical significance but possibly there should be discussion of it accompanying the results?

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