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Frontiers in Psychology· 2019Q1

The Meaningfulness of Effect Sizes in Psychological Research: Differences Between Sub-Disciplines and the Impact of Potential Biases

Thomas Schäfer, Marcus Schwarz

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Published psychological effect sizes are significantly inflated (median r=.36) compared to pre-registered studies (median r=.16) due to biases like publication bias, rendering conventional interpretation benchmarks unreliable.

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Field: Applied Psychology

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