Read the Following Research Report and Answer the Question That

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Essay

Read the following research report and answer the question that follow.
A researcher compares men's and women's attitudes toward dating their best friend's former girl/boy friend.Specifically,college students are asked to read a story describing a situation in which their best friend breaks up with a partner and they later have an opportunity to date their best friend's former partner.Men and women rate the likelihood they would choose to date their best friend's former partner using a 10-point scale (0 = not at all likely and 9 = completely likely).In addition,participants rate the extent to which a similar situation has occurred to them using a 10-point scale (0 = not at all and 9 = completely).The mean ratings for each question for the two groups,men and women,are presented below:
The square root of 28 (the df)is approximately 5.3.What is Cohen's d for the difference between ratings for men and women for the question regarding the likelihood of dating? According to Cohen's criteria,how would you describe this effect?

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