Sentences with phrase «statistically insignificant changes»

While residents in the most flooded areas increased their credit card balances on average by $ 700 (a 22 percent increase over their average balance of $ 3200 prior to the storm), the increase was only temporary, with subsequent quarters showing statistically insignificant changes to credit card balances.

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

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A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

But all these changes are statistically insignificant.

In any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical terms.

The latter show negligible change in the mean solar radiance over the data span (formally shows a statistically insignificant cooling) the latter suggest there is a possibly signifcant increase in the mean from 1980 - 1990 to 1990 - 2000.

The media hyperventilate over statistically insignificant temperature changes of small fractions of a degree.»

I also wonder about Richard Lindzen, who has made one suspicious argument in particular that lacks credibility to me (given his apparent scientific pedigree), in that he picked a short, statistically insignificant time period (1995 to 2007) to assess both climate change (which is a long - term event) and concordance amongst the scientific community over climate change during that period,.

What the researchers found in the end, was that liberals» attitudes changed in a «statistically insignificant way,» while Republicans were more heavily influenced by exposure to liberal ideas: