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Three cheers for descriptive statistics—and five more reasons why they matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

Marcus Credé  and
P. D. Harms
Marcus Credé
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
P. D. Harms*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 486 - 488
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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