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The results show that wearing a mask led to a reduction of 2.76 cases per 100,000 people, and a 0.19 per cent reduction in the mortality rate worldwide.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

For a hypothesis to be statistically significant it needs to be at the very least 5% to reject the null.

No, the p-value has to be at least 5% to reject the null. Assuming a is 5% and it's a one tailed test not two tailed..

And of course there are huge problems with using a flat 5% is a statistical significance marker, BSAP banned it's use.

Finish your stats class and try again.