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Critics also bemoan the way pull hollisterthat P values can encourage muddled thinking. A prime example is their tendency to deflect attention from the actual size of an effect. That might have sounded impressive, but the effects were actually tiny: meeting online nudged the divorce rate from 7.67% down to 5.96%, and barely budged happiness from 5.48 to 5.64 on a 7 beats by dre tourpoint scale. To pounce on tiny P values and ignore the larger question is to fall prey to the "seductive certainty of significance", says Geoff Cumming, an emeritus psychologist at Labeats by dre lady gaga Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. But significance is no indicator of practical relevance, he says: "We should be asking, 'How much of an effect is there?', not 'Is there an effect?'"

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