interpreting-conflicting-tests - Adjudicate conflicting statistical test results
Adjudicates conflicting tests on the same data by checking assumptions, sample-size issues, and test applicability, then selects one primary result.
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Updated: 2026-10-15Capabilities
Typical Inputs
What this skill does
- Validate test applicability
- Build assumption-status tables
- Identify assumption violations
- Check discreteness and ties
- Check outlier-driven divergence
- Select one primary test
- Recommend effect sizes and confidence intervals
- Document adjudication reasoning
Inputs
- First test name
- Second test name
- First test result
- Second test result
- First test assumption checks
- Second test assumption checks
- Sample-size pattern
- Pre-registered test
Outputs
- Assumption-status table
- Test applicability assessment
- Selected primary test
- Effect-size and confidence-interval guidance
- Methods-section adjudication text