Barely Significant

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(2013) , our results revealed a decreasing trend in patient performance in managing the different pragmatic tasks investigated, including sincere, deceitful, and ironic communicative acts in both comprehension and production on both the linguistic and extralinguistic scales of the ABaCo ( Angeleri et al., 2012 ).
There is no “objective” indicator for the extent of difference required to be deemed “non-trivial.” Therefore, we followed the guideline that effect size benchmarks for “practically significant” effects should be determined based on evidence from the specific research context (Hill et al., 2008 ; Keefer et al., 2013 ).
Using a paired sample Wilcoxon sign-rank test (non-parametric test), the results for naturalized respondents showed hardly significant changes in the average value for identification with Germany over this period: indifference profile ( n = 25; T = 85.50, ns ); partial integration profile ( n = 36; T = 230.00, ns ); assimilation profile ( n = 15; T = 35.00, ns ); separation profile ( n = 22; T = 52.00, ns ).