Imagine that you are attending a lecture on gender comparisons in college students' reading comprehension. The speaker says, "The effect size for this kind of reading-comprehension test was 0.15.". You would conclude that
a. this gender difference is larger than the gender difference in height.
b. a box-score approach would have provided more useful information.
c. the probability of finding a difference this large is about 15%.
d. the gender difference is not large enough to have an influence on people's career choices.
D
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