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

question 17

Multiple Choice

If a researcher performs a meta-analysis and finds that the mean d = 0.45, and the 95 percent confidence interval around this mean is (0.34, 0.56) , what can 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 medium effect, but it is unclear what the direction of the effect is.
• D) Averaging across all of the literature, there is a medium effect, and this effect is statistically significant.

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