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That’s not what significance means.



I mean... yes it is? 95% confidence in an effect is what most people mean when they say "statistically significant".


I think the objection is about the phrasing that can be interpreted as "I will only be wrong in at most 5% of significant results", while what we mean is "if there is no effect, we will only get so large differences in at most 5% of cases".

It's not uncommon that people fail to notice the nuance here and it's quite important for correctly interpreting reults.




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