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by energy123
655 days ago
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But they say "26.08% increase (SE: 10.3%)", so they make it clear that there's a lot of uncertainty around that number. They could have said "26% (rounded to 0 dp)" or something, but that conveys even less information about the amount of uncertainty than just saying what the standard error is. |
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The second decimal point doesn't essentially add any information because the data can't provide information at that precision. It's noise but being included in the summary result makes it implicitly look like information. Which is exactly why including it seems a bit questionable.
That's not the major issue with the study, though, it's just one of the things that caught my eye originally.