Effects size statistic and how to interpret it

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• JDeBeer

  June 2020

  Here is an interesting reveiw that may be helpful

  
  

  Breaugh, J. A. (2003). Effect size estimation: Factors to consider and mistakes to avoid. Journal of Management, 29(1), 79-97. 

  https://people.kth.se/~lang/Effect_size.pdf   the free pdf

  
  

  Good luck

   
• EJ

  June 2020

  Hi JDeBeer,

  You've also corresponded about this issue on our GitHub page, right? In general, I'd say that it is always a good idea to plot the data -- perhaps even the raw data, and/or means with CIs.

  Cheers,

  E.J.
• JDeBeer

  June 2020

  thanks, yes I have asked the question multiple places. Sorry of that is wrong.

  Trying to understand eta squared, omega squared and cohen's d, and what to report.

  I now understand how to report Cohen's d and omega squared, but have NO idea of the importance of eta squared.

  The numbers for Cohen's d effect size seem to be well published but the only thing I have found for omega sq, is from page 184 of Keppel et al, "Intro to design and analysis" where they offer this, from Cohen 1988, a book. "a small effect is omega sqr 0.01, medium is 0.06, and large effect is 0.15 or greater. it is a real struggle to understand this, I am retired, and not in school so no professor to ask. And I am only reading free pdf papers.

  Not the place for a suggestion, but maybe it would be good to add these kind of interpretations to the raw statistic in JASP, which BTW I like very much. Very very helpful for a paper we are writing.

  thanks

  JDB
• EJ

  June 2020

  Hi JDB,

  Asking the same question on different fora is a good idea! I have never really looked into the interpretation of eta-squared. I know that some people like to convert all effect sizes to r; if that's legit and possible for eta-squared, it could help. But it seems that the more complicated design, the more options there exist for effect size. And I am not sure people really care about it (in addition to what the eye can pick up from a plot of the descriptive results).

  E.J.