Significance and sample size A study with 5000 subjects reported a result that was

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Significance and sample size A study with 5000 subjects reported a result that was statistically significant at the 5% level. Explain why this result might not be particularly large or important.

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Significance and sample size A study with 5000 subjects reported a result that was statistically significant at the 5% level. Explain why this result might not be particularly large or important.

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The sample size is extremely large and for such large samples the value of the test statistic

will become very large too.

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