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A simple method to determine and evaluate “effect size”

2011; John Libbey Eurotext; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1684/san.2011.0240

1950-6953

Nicolas Guéguen, Marcel Lourel, Alexandre Pascual, F. Mouda,

Psychology of Social Influence

Measurement of effect sizes is a practice that is increasingly encouraged, indeed required, by journals of psychological and social behaviour, in addition to the standard tests of statistical significance. This paper is a methodological note presenting the conceptual interest of the effect size, its main indicators and their interpretation.