As per the American Statistical Association's (ASA) recently released «Statement on P - Values,» statistical significance «is not equivalent to scientific, human, or economic significance... Any effect, no matter how tiny, can produce a small p - value [i.e., «statistical significance»] if the sample size or measurement precision is high enough» (p. 10); hence, one must always check for
practical significance when making claims about statistical significance, like Kane et al. actually do here, but do here in a similar inflated vein.
The count of the Party vote would be of interest locally, but would only have
practical significance when aggregated with all the other votes to reach a national total.
The minimum wage legislation doesn't have much
practical significance when employers can freely introduce «zero hours» working contracts.
Not exact matches
Workshops cover evidence - based information about the benefits of doula support, the tender and sensitive time and space
when a new families brings home a new baby, the
significance of doula support to a family,
practical hands - on techniques, as well as the steps to begin a career as a postpartum doula.
While these are also noted as statistically significant, using the table below one can determine that statistical
significance does not necessarily mean that such «very weak» to «weak» correlations are of much
practical significance, especially if and
when high - stakes decisions about teachers and their effects are to be attached to such evidence.
To elucidate the
practical significance of this holding, the court explained the tax outcomes
when applying each method:
When fed and domesticated, the camel «s
practical functionality gives way to an aesthetic visual reversal, giving it a new
significance.
From a
practical standpoint, however, it may be preferable to acknowledge that the concept of statistical
significance is meaningless
when discussing poorly understood systems.
For a claimant seeking an interim injunction, the
practical significance of being able to pass the threshold test easily is great, because,
when it comes to the second stage, the courts are likely to be sympathetic to arguments about the need to «hold the ring».