diff --git a/doc/modules/cross_validation.rst b/doc/modules/cross_validation.rst
index f07ca42518be7..6705a3da4a9b0 100644
--- a/doc/modules/cross_validation.rst
+++ b/doc/modules/cross_validation.rst
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ to obtain good results. A high p-value could be due to a lack of dependency
 between features and labels (there is no difference in feature values between
 the classes) or because the classifier was not able to use the dependency in
 the data. In the latter case, using a more appropriate classifier that
-is able to utilize the structure in the data, would result in a low
+is able to utilize the structure in the data, would result in a lower
 p-value.
 
 Cross-validation provides information about how well a classifier generalizes,