{
  "id": 1739889,
  "title": "'No difference' results may be wrong conclusion from medical data research, scientists warn",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/no-difference-results-may-be-wrong-conclusion-from-medical-data",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-18T15:20:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-difference-results-wrong-conclusion-medical.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Arkansas are urging scientists to stop treating \"nonsignificant\" results as proof that nothing happened. The common statistical mistake, they warn in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be leading researchers to draw the wrong conclusions from their data.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}