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The primary outcome addresses the main prespecified question; the secondary outcomes involve several additional comparisons. Testing each at would increase the chance of at least one false positive across them. The smaller secondary significance level makes their individual tests more conservative, reducing multiple testing problems.
This is a design distinction between confirmatory and additional outcomes, not a claim that secondary outcomes are intrinsically less important. A level of per secondary test does not by itself establish a particular bound on the familywise error rate unless the whole testing plan and number of tests are specified. Likewise, having two primary measurements still needs a clear prespecified reporting and multiplicity strategy.
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