# How to check the significant difference of pre- and post test result? [closed]

If I got a t -value=1.46988E-27, what does it signifies? How to find whether it is significant or not? And in what level it should be compared eg. 0.05 or 0.01 etc.

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 What do you mean by t-value? The p-value of the test, or the value of the t statistic? What do you mean by pre- and post- test significance (I am not aware of signficance before doing a test)? – gui11aume May 26 '12 at 15:40 -1, please provide more details. – mpiktas May 28 '12 at 17:31

## closed as not a real question by whuber♦May 28 '12 at 18:52

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 It appears as though the $t$-statistic is $10^{-27}$, which would almost certainly indicate non-significance. – Macro May 26 '12 at 16:47 @macro Yes you interpreted what the OP said literally which would indicate a t of almost 0 which would be non-significant. But I assumed he meant the tail probability for the t statistic because he is looking at it as an indication of significance and numbers that small are in practice often seen as p-value but rarely as calculated values for the test statistic. – Michael Chernick May 26 '12 at 17:02