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Statistical Significance

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A result is statistically significant when it is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone, under a threshold set before analysis.

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The eight-hour group recalls four more words on average, a gap that would rarely appear if sleep made no difference.

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Significance reports that a result is probably not noise, and nothing more.