Examples from practical research

This chapter discusses examples where the original data was freely available.
These examples will be used throughout this manual in order to illustrate how
different effect size indices are calculated and interpreted.
3.1 Example A : Hypnotherapeutic ego strengthening (HES) for male
coronary artery bypass patients (de Klerk et.al., 2004)
From the population of white, male, Afrikaans speaking patients who received
their first coronary artery bypass surgery at a given hospital, 50 are randomly
assigned to equally sized control and experimental groups. No statistically
significant differences between the two groups are found when considering the
following variables: the biographical variables, age, education level, martial
status, cardiac history, family health, social background and lifestyle stress.
Before the operation, HES is applied to the patients in the experimental group
(EG) and after the operation it is disengaged, wh