Do betweenculture 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 reflect practically important differ-ences between people of different cultures. To determine whether differences between culture means repre-sent meaningful differences between individuals, further data analyses involving measures of cultural effect sizes are necessary. In this article the authors recommend four such measures and demonstrate their efficacy on two data sets from previously published studies. They argue for their use in future cross-cultural research as a complement to traditional tests of mean differences