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non-significant

American  
[nahn-sig-nif-i-kuhnt] / ˌnɑn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kənt /

adjective

  1. not statistically significant by the standards of a particular scientific discipline; not statistically distinguishable from chance.


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Gains in self-esteem spilled over to reductions in loneliness for younger generations as well, with the indirect effect eventually becoming non-significant for users in their 60s and 70s.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

The researchers looked at seven indicators of illness and found non-significant reductions in all of them in cats on a vegan diet.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2023

As for the impact on local merchants, a 2021 study found that bike-lane and pedestrian projects generally have “positive or non-significant economic impacts” on surrounding retail establishments.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

Third, we apply the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure to the pooled P values and remove non-significant metadata categories.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

Thus, if is a non-significant particle, but it is an abbreviated form of an imperative in the second person—substituted for gif, or give, or grant the case—put the case that.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James

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