It’s hard to say. Others have told me that they greatly preferred backing up these kinds of statements with statistical testing. I guess I can’t make everyone happy. :)
OK, I guess I inferred the causality as being you did the test, then wrote the statement. If you were going to use the same language anyway, I agree that the test doesn’t hurt—but I think that this statement might have been better left out or weakened.
It’s hard to say. Others have told me that they greatly preferred backing up these kinds of statements with statistical testing. I guess I can’t make everyone happy. :)
OK, I guess I inferred the causality as being you did the test, then wrote the statement. If you were going to use the same language anyway, I agree that the test doesn’t hurt—but I think that this statement might have been better left out or weakened.