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No; it's standard to set the threshold for your statistical test for 95% confidence. Studies with larger samples can detect smaller differences between groups with that same statistical power.
"Power" is a statistical term of art, and its technical meaning is neither 1 - alpha nor 1 - p.
Oops; you're right. Careless of me; fixed.
It's times like this that I wish Doctor Seuss was a mathematician (or statistician in this case). If they were willing to make up new words, we'd be able to talk without accidentally using jargon that has technical meaning we didn't intend.