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“practically significant”

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p=0.06

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In the example, suppose that a decision-maker will implement some policy if its health impacts are estimated to be greater than some value deemed practically significant, say, if the expected number of averted stroke cases E ( Y ) >k ,where k is chosen by the decision-maker’s judgement to account for the costs or harms of the policy (in practice, the model would also be extended to acknowledge that the policy might not achieve the intended change D ).
Although 64% of the tests of difference between the higher and lower risk groups are significant (80% of the Youth measures and 53% of the measures completed by parents), only four make the cut-off for a meaningful effect size, 0.20, which is typically the lowest level at which it makes sense to regard a difference as practically significant ( Cohen, 1988 ; McGraw and Wong, 1992 ).