The other manipulation of significant is a misuse of the concept of “statistical significance.” When a study looks at an intervention’s outcomes and find that those outcomes are “statistically significant” it simply means that it is more likely that the outcomes are a result of the intervention than that they were the result of chance. So if a study had a statistically significant finding that people using some weight loss method lost 3% of their body weight, that would mean that it was more likely that the small amount of weight loss was due to the weight loss method than that it was by chance. However, if the study conclusion were to say that people lost a “significant amount of weight” when what they meant was that the weight loss was statistically significant, they might mislead people into thinking that “significant” in this case meant “a lot of” weight.