Which of the following is not an advantage of using measures of effect size?

A. Measures of effect size provide information about the strength of the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable.
B. Measures of effect size provide the best information about whether the effect of the independent variable is statistically significant.
C. Measures of effect size can provide an estimate of the overall effect size for an independent variable by averaging effect sizes across a series of experiments.
D. Measures of effect size can be used to make quantitative comparisons of the different outcomes found in a series of experiments involving the same independent variable.


B. Measures of effect size provide the best information about whether the effect of the independent variable is statistically significant.

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