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“practically significant”

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p=0.06

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The person feels disconnected from the world, as it no longer appears practically significant in the way it once did – she is not quite “there.” And, insofar as she lacks certain feelings of anticipation and associated bodily dispositions, insofar as she is no longer practically and habitually immersed in situations, her body may feel strangely inanimate and alien too.
The knowledge-risk paradox: a central challenge The most striking and consequential finding is the significant inverse correlation between knowledge and perceived risk ( r =−0.187, p < 0.001), while modest in magnitude (small-to-moderate effect), is nonetheless practically significant.
Disagreements regarding the treatment/enhancement distinction involve the plausibility of the distinction itself, whether it is morally or practically significant, where and how to draw the line between treatment and enhancement, and the implications of categorizing interventions on either side of the line (Anderson, 1989 ; Bess, 2010 ; Juengst & Moseley, 2019 ; Juengst, 1997 ; Parens, 1998 ).
Framing these small effects in terms of the real-world units parents and health policy-makers care about is important; they speak to the idea that technology use before bed might not, in of itself, be associated with the practically significant negative impacts often in much media coverage and policy debate.