ANOVA and P values

Posted by Deborah Pearce on Jun 20, 2006; 11:39pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/SPSS-MVA-tp1069196p1069198.html

Dear All,
I am an Ecologist/physiologist and thought I had sufficient understanding
of statistics for my purposes.  However, I am being trouble by something
simple.  When using something like ANOVA if for example assumptions of
normality or equality of variances are not met is this less important if
the output is highly significant e.g. P less than 0.00001 rather than P
only slightly less than 0.05?  I am aware that this is a stats question
rather than an SPSS question so you may simply want to suggest another
listserv I could use.  I am not finding the answer in textbooks.
Thanks in advance,
Deborah