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Peer reviewedKirk, Roger E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2001
Makes the case that science is best served when researchers focus on the size of effects and their practical significance. Advocates the use of confidence intervals for deciding whether chance or sampling variability is an unlikely explanation for an observed effect. Calls for more emphasis on effect sizes in the next edition of the American…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing, Psychology, Research Reports
