If a Researcher Performs a Meta-Analysis and Finds That the Mean

question 100

Multiple Choice

If a researcher performs a meta-analysis and finds that the mean d = 0.11, and that the 95 percent confidence interval around this mean is (-0.04, 0.26) , what could the researcher conclude?

• A) All future studies of this effect will find effect sizes somewhere between 0.34 and 0.56.
• B) Averaging across all of the literature, there really is no effect.
• C) There is a strong effect, but it is unclear what the direction of the effect is.
• D) Averaging across all of the literature, there is a strong effect, and this effect is statistically significant.

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