We are trying to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment for claustrophobia. We have a control group that receives no treatment and an experimental group that receives our new treatment. We ask each participant to enter a very small room and stay there are long as they can. The mean of the control group is 10 seconds, with a standard deviation of 4 seconds. The mean of the experimental group is 18
seconds with a standard deviation of 8 seconds. Our best estimate of effect size is
a. 2.0
b. 1.33
c. 1.0
d. 1.75
A
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