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Language That Obscures

To the Editor:

As an old, one-time teacher of research design and methods of statistical analysis in the academic world and at workshops for practitioners, and as an author of two manuals on clinical research, I must express some puzzlement and some concern about Editor Jules Rothstein's words about "Statistical Words" in his February 1995 Editor's Note.¹

Most of the Editor's Note is given over to attacking what Rothstein considers the redundant use of the word "significant" in reporting statistically significant results, as in "The means of group A and group B were significantly different." The Editor says, "We edit out the word significant.'"...

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