Analysis of 567,758 randomized controlled trials published over 30 years reveals trends in phrases used to discuss results that do not reach statistical significance

• Willem M. Otte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biomedical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of Child Neurology, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1511-6834

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• Christiaan H. Vinkers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Philippe C. Habets,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5831-9020

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• David G. P. van IJzendoorn,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Joeri K. Tijdink

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.tijdink@amsterdamumc.nl

  Affiliations Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1826-2274

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