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. 2023 Mar 9;11:e14963. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14963

Table 5. Examples of claims about the sample in the abstracts of articles following non-significant NHST classified as “No Effect”, “Similar or Small Effect Size”, “Non-Significant” or “Ambiguous”.

No Effect
N = 174, 63%
“Levels of individuals sitting with their back to the window was unaffected by visitor number or noise.”
Hashmi & Sullivan (2020)
“The groups did not differ in their ability to follow human signals”
Lazarowski et al. (2020)
Similar or Small Effect Size
N = 17, 6%
“Pair members demonstrated comparable responses towards a male ‘intruder’, as latency to respond and proximity scores were very similar between pair members in the majority of pairs examined”
DeVries, Winters & Jawor (2020)
“We found that individuals called back to sympatric and allopatric calls within similar amounts of time,”
Wu et al. (2021)
Non-Significant
N = 71, 26%
“Nutcrackers…did not significantly change their caching behaviour when observed by a pinyon jay.”
Vernouillet, Clary & Kelly (2021)
“No significant correlations between degree of laterality and behavioral interest in the stimuli were found”
Lilley, De Vere & Yeater (2020)
Ambiguous
N = 16 (6%)
“We also found no conclusive evidence that either the visual or the vibratory sensory modalities are critical for prey capture.”
Meza, Elias & Rosenthal (2021)
“No systematic variations on space allocation were observed in neither experiment”
Ribes-Iñesta, Hernández & Serrano (2020)