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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

hochsignifikant und mittelhoch

English translation:

highly significant with a moderately high correlation

Added to glossary by Susan Welsh
Nov 25, 2016 16:14
7 yrs ago
German term

hochsignifikant und mittelhoch

German to English Social Sciences Mathematics & Statistics ego development
Dieser korrelierte hochsignifikant und mittelhoch mit Ich-Entwicklung (r = 0,29).

My draft: The correlation with ego development was highly significant and medium high (r = 0.29).

Is there something wrong with the German sentence? If something is highly significant, it can't be medium high, unless "medium high" something else is implied or perhaps omitted by mistake (maybe medium strong?).

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
4 highly significant but with a weak correlation
3 highly significant and moderately high
References
Der Zusammenhang ist mittelhoch und hoch signifikant

Discussion

Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 26, 2016:
Dieser Here you go (assessment of adolescents' self-image):
Die Jugendlichen bewerteten vorgegebene Adjektive in Bezug auf sich selbst (Selbstbild) und weitere Fragestellungen (z.B. ideales Selbst oder soziales Selbst, d.h. wie man glaubt, von anderen wahrgenommen zu werden). Daraus berechneten Hauser et al. einen gemeinsamen Komplexitätswert.
Cilian O'Tuama Nov 26, 2016:
@Susan What does your 'Dieser' refer back to? The preceding sentence might help.
Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 25, 2016:
@Susan Now that I understand as the adjectives are followed by nouns. Weird, but obviously correct.
Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 25, 2016:
@Armorel Thanks for those clear descriptions. I figured it was something like that, but the author always gives r values and never p values in this 200-plus-page book, so I was getting more and more confused.//My husband just came home and suggested "medium high correlation with high significance." That has the advantage that it makes sense to me in English. (Actually, it's what Donald said; but now I understand it better.)
Armorel Young Nov 25, 2016:
Presumably plural because... ... the writer is looking at a number of factors. For example, if you were looking at "what makes a good translator" you might find that there were moderate but highly significant with a number of factors, such as "years of education", "years of experience", "age" or whatever, so multiple correlation coefficients.
Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 25, 2016:
Oh dear! but it's in the plural: highly significant and mid-level correlations.
That was a brilliant, concise and elegant explanation Armorel.
so if 99 of 100 samples/test persons of a given age display a given attribute then the correlation is significantly high and significantly high?
Armorel Young Nov 25, 2016:
Two concepts ... ... are at work here. There is the correlation coefficient (r), which describes the extent of the correlation between the two variables (e.g. a moderate or moderately high correlation), and then there is the significance of that correlation (p), which tells you how confident you can be that the correlation you have found is accurate (e.g. if the correlation were based on only a small number of samples, you couldn't necessarily be sure it was significant). So you can have a high correlation that might not necessarily be significant - or vice versa.
DLyons Nov 25, 2016:
@Susan Perhaps it's primarily a matter of finding a range of adjectives to classify r<0.3, 0.3<=r<0.4. 0.4<=r<0.45 etc (the exact ranges depending on your ST).
Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 25, 2016:
Here's another example Es zeigten sich hochsignifikante und mittlere Korrelationen zum generellen Reifefaktor (r = 0,35) und etwas höhere zu den Reifefaktoren in Bezug auf Karriere (r = 0,42) und gesellschaftliche Aktivitäten (r = 0,45).
Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 25, 2016:
More than I am no need to be modest.
Steffen Walter Nov 25, 2016:
Well, sort of ... ... but not really ...
Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 25, 2016:
I'm no statistics expert but Steffen is!
Steffen Walter Nov 25, 2016:
I guess ... ... this refers to a medium-high correlation that was highly significant statistically/in statistical terms.
Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 25, 2016:
Well, I guess it can, but in that case how can the significance be both high and medium high? (Sorry for my ignorance of statistics!)
Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 25, 2016:
Hi Susan Can it be that both adjectives refer to significant?

Proposed translations

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highly significant but with a weak correlation

It's quite possible to have a significant result e.g. p<0.05 but with a quite small correlation value. In some contexts, r=0.29 or even less would not be surprising

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Note added at 34 mins (2016-11-25 16:49:05 GMT)
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Maybe "weak" is a bit strong (if you see what I mean). "weakish", "relatively low" might be closer :-)

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Note added at 41 mins (2016-11-25 16:55:40 GMT)
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Prairie, among many others, discusses the issue

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235554912_Evaluatin...
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all for your explanations and references. (Prairie's article was over my head, but the others were helpful!) What I'm putting in the glossary reflects various people's contributions."
3 hrs

highly significant and moderately high

Compare with this sentence:
"Results showed that there was highly significant and moderately high positive correlation between the topcross hybrid performance per se (a measure of GCA) produced with the two testers, both for Fe and Zn densities in both experiments." https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/cs/articles/56/...
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Reference comments

1 day 14 mins
Reference:

Der Zusammenhang ist mittelhoch und hoch signifikant

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Reference:

https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb21/ep/studium/downloads/statistikdownloads/loesungen11

http://simplyeducate.me/2014/05/29/what-is-a-statistically-significant-relationship-between-two-variables/

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