Significant and nonsignificant results need not differ significantly

For independent effect estimates $1.01$ with standard error $0.50$, and $0.99$ with standard error $0.51$, one two-sided Wald test is significant at five percent and the other is not. But their difference is $0.02$ with standard error $\sqrt{0.50^2+0.51^2}\approx 0.714$, giving a negligible test statistic. Hence different significance labels do not establish an interaction or between-study heterogeneity; compare the effects directly.^[ref]