Interpreting Interactions when Main Effects are Not Significant

by Karen Grace-Martin

If you have significant a significant interaction effect and non-significant main effects, would you interpret the interaction effect?

It’s a question I get pretty often, and it’s a more straightforward answer than most.

There is really only one situation possible in which [click to continue…]

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