Gentle Reminder : A high t statistic does not indicate strong relationship of IVs with the DV.

Just the other day, I saw a post (again) stating that a t statistic indicates strength of relationship of IVs to DVs.

So here is a gentle reminder (sharing it again).

The high t statistic here does not indicate a strong relationship with the dependent variable.

We must first understand what is the null hypothesis in the current context. The null hypothesis is slope =0 or in other words the beta = 0.

The alternate hypothesis being, slope ≠0.

So even if we reject the null, we still don’t get ‘quantification of the effect size’. All we know now is that ‘there is non zero effect’ but don’t know exactly how much.

So, pls stop inferring that “A high T statistic value indicates that the variable has a strong relationship with the dependent variable”.