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Why are there no differences showing for a comparison?
Why are there no differences showing for a comparison?

Understand the reasons why a comparison might not yield any differences.

Trish Pencarska avatar
Written by Trish Pencarska
Updated over 5 months ago

It is possible that a particular comparison does not yield any statistically significant differences. When this is the case, you will be presented with a message in the comparison explorer as shown below.

There are three primary reasons this might occur:

  1. There is a large amount of overlap between data sets, and thus no statistically significant differences exist.

  2. One or both of the data sets are too small to retrieve differences that are statistically significant.

  3. There is an issue with your uploaded data that caused an error in the analysis process. For the best practices around data formatting and upload, follow our guide and learn how to import the text data for analysis from various sources.

What can you do instead:

  1. You can lower the significance threshold to check if this brings up any significant results.
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  2. If this does not yield any results, you can try to look at similarities or frequencies instead. The fact that the two data sets do not bring up any significant differences is an interesting insight.
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  3. If your data does not show any significant differences, try comparing it to our Standard English model for immediate insights.

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