Statistics

Practical significance

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What does it mean?

Practical significance concerns whether a finding is useful or worthwhile in context. Consider magnitude, costs, benefits and implementation conditions together.

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With a huge sample, a form becoming 0.2 seconds faster may be statistically significant. A high development cost may make that improvement insufficient for adoption.

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Every statistically significant difference is practically important.

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