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Your Head of Research Has Followed Your Advice and Now

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Your head of research has followed your advice and now wants you to measure effect sizes.You report a Pearson's r of 0.50 for the impact of increased consumption of oily fish supplements on student reading scores.Your head of research wants to know if this is bad,as she remembers that a p-value of 0.30 is not good.What do you tell her?


A) You tell her that effect size and p-values are not the same and that a Pearson's r of 0.50 is a large effect,suggesting she should encourage the use of oily fish supplements.
B) You tell her that effect size and p-values are the same and that a Pearson's r of 0.50 means there is no statistically significant effect and oily fish supplements should not be given.
C) You tell her that effect size and p-values are not the same and that a Pearson's r of 0.50 is a small effect,suggesting she should stop the use of oily fish supplements until more data analysis is done.
D) You tell her that effect size and p-values are not the same and that a Pearson's r of 0.50 is a medium effect,suggesting she should encourage the use of oily fish supplements.

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