Hi all,

I am carrying out empirical research and for part of it I require excel for determining statistical significance.
My results include reporting t-test (two-tailed) and p- value.

I understand, for a 2 tailed t-test that is the output is >1.96 it is significant at 5%. However, I am unsure how to interpret the statistical significance of my results when the p-value is also reported.

For example, if I have a t-test result of 0.65 and a p-value of 0.5. I known from the t-test (following the above rule) that this is not significant but would this p-value not mean it is significant at 5%? I have worked out that this interpretation is incorrect- can anyone shed some light on this for me please and allow me to understand why?

Many thanks,

RM