<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Dear all, </span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt">I recently came across this paper (kindly see the attached pdf), and I am a bit confused about how</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> these authors </span><span style="font-size:12pt">have measured the effect size for the MA. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">T<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">hey </span>have measured </span><span style="color:inherit;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Pearson’s correlation coefficient in two different ways (see section 2.3, page 3).</span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><div style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(i). Hedges’ g has been transformed to a Pearson’s correlation coefficient. </span></div><div style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(ii). Or, Pearson’s r <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">has been</span> calculated from F, t, or χ2 data.<br aria-hidden="true"></span></div><div style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"></span></div><div style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Is this a correct way of measuring the effect size</span>? <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">if yes, </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">how this can be done??</span></span></div><div style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Then, can we really pool the effect sizes calculated from these two methods for the final analysis???</span></span></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"><br></font></span></span></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align: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