Do between-culture differences really mean that people are different? A look at some measures of cultural effect size

Statistically significant differences in culture means may or may not refle ct practically important differences between people of different cultures. To determine whether differences between culture means represent meaningful differences between individuals, further data analyses involving measures of cultural effect sizes are necessary. In this article the authors recomme nd four such measures and demonstrate their efficacy on two data sets from previously published studies. They argue for their use in future cross-cult ural research as a complement to traditional tests of mean differences.