at a given level of significance, say, 5%, if p value is 6%, then the independent variable should be excluded. He wanted me to explain it in layman's term first. Then accused me of being wrong and said I should have said fail to reject null. WTF honestly. He just said he wanted this in layman's term. What he said was the technical definition, and he was just giving me a lecture on how important it is to explain technical stuff to VPs that don't have any knowledge in technical jargon.