Why do studies using difference scores tend to have larger effect sizes than studies using other research designs?
A) There is a long-standing procedural bias in psychology to set up studies involving dependent means in such a way as to artificially favor large effect sizes.
B) The standard deviation of difference scores is usually low.
C) Because participants provide their own baseline, variance becomes a wildcard, causing the effect size to increase.
D) Because studies with dependent means usually use a large number of participants, larger effect sizes are easily detected.
B
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