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Translate a Study's Effect Size Into What It Actually Means

Translate the following statistical result into what it actually means in practice, without softening it into a vague analogy: {RESULT}. State plainly how large the effect is relative to typical effects in the field, what the confidence interval or p-value implies about certainty, and what would have to be true for the result to matter outside the study's own sample.

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