The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

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An alternative hypothesis ( H a or H 1) states your main prediction of a true effect, a relationship between variables, or a difference between groups. Next, you perform a t test to see whether actively smiling leads to more happiness. Using the difference in average happiness between the two groups, you calculate: a b c Wasserstein, Ronald L.; Lazar, Nicole A. (2016-04-02). "The ASA's Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose". The American Statistician. 70 (2): 129–133. doi: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108. Healy, Joseph F. (2009). The Essentials of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (2nded.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning. pp.177–205. ISBN 978-0-495-60143-2.

Sproull, Natalie L. (2002). "Hypothesis testing". Handbook of Research Methods: A Guide for Practitioners and Students in the Social Science (2nded.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 49–64. ISBN 978-0-810-84486-5. In 1925, Ronald Fisher advanced the idea of statistical hypothesis testing, which he called "tests of significance", in his publication Statistical Methods for Research Workers. [28] [29] [30] Fisher suggested a probability of one in twenty (0.05) as a convenient cutoff level to reject the null hypothesis. [31] In a 1933 paper, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson called this cutoff the significance level, which they named α {\displaystyle \alpha } . They recommended that α {\displaystyle \alpha } be set ahead of time, prior to any data collection. [31] [32] There were significant climatic differences, including an unusually wet season followed by dry seasons. If the p value is lower than the significance level, the results are interpreted as refuting the null hypothesis and reported as statistically significant. Sprent, P. (1989), Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods (Seconded.), Chapman & Hall, ISBN 978-0-412-44980-2

Kline, Rex, (2004). Beyond Significance Testing: Reforming Data Analysis Methods in Behavioral Research Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Amrhein, Valentin; Greenland, Sander (2017). "Remove, rather than redefine, statistical significance". Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (1): 0224. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0224-0. PMID 30980046. S2CID 46814177.

a b Hojat, Mohammadreza; Xu, Gang (2004). "A Visitor's Guide to Effect Sizes". Advances in Health Sciences Education. 9 (3): 241–9. doi: 10.1023/B:AHSE.0000038173.00909.f6. PMID 15316274. S2CID 8045624. How did The Search For Significancebecome such a phenomenon, transforming lives of people from all over the world? This modern classic has made its way into the homes of more than three million people. Experience it for yourself, and you’ll understand why.

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On its own, statistical significance may also be misleading because it’s affected by sample size. In extremely large samples, you’re more likely to obtain statistically significant results, even if the effect is actually small or negligible in the real world. This means that small effects are often exaggerated if they meet the significance threshold, while interesting results are ignored when they fall short of meeting the threshold. These are the universal lies that trigger the cycle of self-doubt, robbing you of joyful living. Now, you can free yourself from these self-defeating lies. a b Myers, Jerome L.; Well, Arnold D.; Lorch, Robert F. Jr. (2010). "Developing fundamentals of hypothesis testing using the binomial distribution". Research design and statistical analysis (3rded.). New York, NY: Routledge. pp.65–90. ISBN 978-0-805-86431-1. Ioannidis, John P. A.; Ware, Jennifer J.; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan; Simonsohn, Uri; Chambers, Christopher D.; Button, Katherine S.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Nosek, Brian A.; Munafò, Marcus R. (January 2017). "A manifesto for reproducible science". Nature Human Behaviour. 1: 0021. doi: 10.1038/s41562-016-0021. PMC 7610724. PMID 33954258. Vaughan, Simon (2013). Scientific Inference: Learning from Data (1sted.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp.146–152. ISBN 978-1-107-02482-3.

Benjamin, Daniel; etal. (2018). "Redefine statistical significance". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (1): 6–10. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z. PMID 30980045.

Another common analysis in which P values can easily be misinterpreted is the selection of a prediction model for multiple regression or classification. To show how this can occur, we performed 1,000 simulations of our 10 physiological variables that were, as before, random and independent of each other and of SBP. We then applied forward selection to identify variables that statistically predicted SBP. In this selection process, we start with no variables in the model and iteratively add the variables that provide the most statistically significant improvement, repeating this until no further variables add to the explanatory power of the model.

We are all searching for significance to ourselves, to others, to our community and to our world. Discover what three million readers have already discovered: that true significance is found only in Christ. Faherty, Vincent (2008). "Probability and statistical significance". Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With exercises and instructions in SPSS) (1sted.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp.127–138. ISBN 978-1-412-93982-9. Cumming, Geoff (2011). "From null hypothesis significance to testing effect sizes". Understanding The New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis. Multivariate Applications Series. East Sussex, United Kingdom: Routledge. pp.21–52. ISBN 978-0-415-87968-2.