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> They're at P=0.93 right now. So they're very close.

A big P value is bad.

> that's exactly what I'd call "a high level of certainty that the effect for men doesn't equal the effect for women."

Then you are operating off a non-standard cutoff for certainty because the paper explicitly states that the difference between the effect on male vs female is only statistically significant for the sub category of Alzheimer's.



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