P-Value = .000??? What to do when a p-value of .000 is reported

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This video explains what a p-value of .000 means and how to determine if the result is statistically significant.

What is the P value in statistics?

Video Transcript: In this video I want to take a look at a question actually that I get a lot from people and that is when they get a p-value in their computer output reported as .000 and often they're concerned that maybe they made an error or they're not sure what that means. So I wanted to cover this topic in this video. So did something go wrong when you have a p reported of .000, like say in SPSS? Actually, not at all. This is actually quite good news if you see that in your computer output. A reported p of .000 in computer output really just means that the results were highly significant. Or, in other words, they're very unlikely to have occurred by chance alone. So here's an example of a p reported as .000 in computer output. Now it's important to note that the true p value is not really .000. What happened is that the actual p-value was less than .0005, and using built-in rounding rules, it was just rounded down and reported as .000 by SPSS in this example here. So whenever you see a p-value like the one reported above, just think that p is very small, technically less than .0005. In this case, we typically will report our results when we see a p of .000, as p is less than .001. The p of .000 again means that the results are highly significant. However, reporting p as .000 is generally frowned upon, because it suggests there was absolutely no or zero chance of getting the results if the null hypothesis was true. But there is always some chance of getting the results if the null is true, however small or unlikely the chance may be. This is why we typically report p is less than .001, instead of p is equal to .000. So if you're making a poster or presenting your results or you're a conference or what have you, I really would discourage you to write p equals .000; instead right p is less than .001. And then that will communicate that you understand that a p-value never really is exactly zero, because there's always some chance of getting the given results if the null was true, however unlikely that chance may be. OK that's it. Thanks for watching.
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This p - value = 0 kept me awake for 3 days and i didn't know what to do about it. I have the solution now that I've watched this video. This the best explanation ever

ablordeppey
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THANK YOU, I was really uncertain but this effectively explains what I needed to know without all the other added information.

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This video is a life saver. Thanks a lot for the info.

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I am taking statistics on line for my bachelors in psychology. I am also a very visual learner. With your videos I can now make sense of everything I am reading. Thank you so very much!

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Thank you for explaining this in understandable terms!!! Greatly appreciated. Keep up the videos!

cindycameron
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Thank you so much Sir. I was quite unsure about my answer on an exercise.

foteininikolaou
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Thank you so much. This was very helpful for a major class assignment.

jodieslininger
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Excellent videos, to the point clear and insightful

mastafixa
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legend ty, p< 0.001 is what i shall write.. paper submitting to springer in a week

corriedotdev
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I'd love to know what a p-value of 1 means? Particularly following a bonferroni correction in post hoc testing. Would one rather use another test, like the Tukey or Sidak perhaps?

amybodden
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i have facing the problem. if p value is 0.000. in this we can accept the null hypothesis?

FarmanAli-seno
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It helps so much for my interpretation of output.

vivianli
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thank you much!! this is very helpful.

jmbmarts
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Let assume H0: A is equal to B, H1:A is not equal to B(a=0.05). What does this mean if I got P-value is 0.2734?

nigolassgao
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If the p value is 1.96e-7, then is it significant or some kind of error? in this p-value the "e-7" stands for ???

hamidalikhan
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please help, is there any reason why my p value isn't showing? it's blank

Ikillurmomify
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I thought I made a major blunder and was getting white hair with the taught to mess with 100 sample data... I am so glad that now I don't have to change things. Thanks for saving my new year eve!

azkaarshad
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Thanks a lot. You made my task really easy!

ranaranarana
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Can we use this statistics table in our thesis quoting value of 0.00 and then use 0.001 value in discussion?

ramaanum
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thanks a you give me the resource from article ?

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