Reading a statistical result — branching viva

Opening (candidate)

I would treat this as a structured reading of the effect size and its confidence interval before I read the p-value. First I would classify the data and check that the right test was used, then I would read the confidence interval against the null, then interpret the p-value in context, and finally judge clinical importance and applicability to the child. A p-value on its own never carries the weight of those judgements. ^{[9] [4]}