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by FabHK 2524 days ago
> that doesn't seem like enough to study it as the cause of anything

Unless I'm mistaken, their measure is basically Cohen's d, and 0.8 is indeed considered a large effect in the social sciences (look at the table in [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size#Cohen's_d