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Re: Screened bottom boards
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Donald Aitken <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 May 2002 19:42:04 -0600
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Hi Peter:

 > My reading of *not significant* is *not significant*.

> pb

Sad to say, but in statistics, "not significant" does not mean much.  To be
significant :-) , "not significant" must be accompanied by a significance
level.

For example, "not significant at the 5% level" means that there was a 5%
chance of the result being due to random variation between samples.

"Not significant" should not be construed as "meaningless".  A result which
is "not significant at the 1% level" can be quite significant at the 5%
level.


Best regards,

Donald Aitken


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