There are only eight episodes, and even if the ratings go down — which they did, to a not insignificant degree, in the second week — would you cancel Oprah's show if you were ABC? No, I didn't think so.
All of us know those two abstract nouns intimately and we all employ them constantly in our daily lives, usually – and fortunately – to a minor and insignificant degree: all social life, for example, would grind to a halt without the "white lie", or the "pieux mensonge", as the French have it.
And since analogical arguments are a type of induction (see the entry on analogy and analogical reasoning), the conclusion even if established would be established only to some, perhaps insignificant, degree of probability.
This is also consistent with the results of stable isotope analysis which revealed meteoric source of groundwater recharge (i.e. recent precipitation with insignificant degree of kinetic evaporation recharging the associated shallow basement aquifer).
Bear in mind, none of these instances suggested that the Justice decided as he did because he was bribed to do so, or that he sided with a litigant to whom he was related even by an insignificant degree of consanguinity.
Results of the GOF test indicated an insignificant degree of overdispersion to the data (ĉ = 1.10; χ2 = 51.67; d.f. = 47; P = 0.296).
This is an insignificant degree of variation in accordance with the accepted convention used in clinical virology (e.g., if serial 2-fold dilutions of antibodies are used).
Takiya et al. also only found a small and insignificant degree of effect of 0.04 for behavioural interventions in their meta-analytic review of antihypertensives (16 studies).
A seemingly insignificant half degree makes all the difference in the world.
Evidence of detrimental effect of mobile phones on male fertility is still equivocal as studies have revealed a wide spectrum of possible effects ranging from insignificant effects to variable degrees of testicular damage.
