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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2017 Aug 23;19(1):25–32. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.06.028

Table 4.

Cohen’s h effect size for proportional differences in preferences.

FAMILY CARE FVRTE NEWS BED FRESH BATH DRESS MUSIC READ RELIG GROUP SNACK PHONE ANIMAL
CARE 0.125
FVRTE 0.131 0.006
NEWS 0.174 0.049 0.043
BED 0.193 0.067 0.061 0.019
FRESH 0.207 0.081 0.075 0.033 0.014
BATH 0.207 0.082 0.076 0.033 0.014 0.001
DRESS 0.418 0.292 0.286 0.244 0.225 0.211 0.210
MUSIC 0.451 0.325 0.319 0.277 0.258 0.244 0.243 0.033
READ 0.492 0.366 0.360 0.318 0.299 0.285 0.284 0.074 0.041
RELIG 0.533 0.408 0.402 0.359 0.340 0.326 0.326 0.115 0.083 0.041
GROUP 0.686 0.561 0.555 0.512 0.493 0.479 0.479 0.269 0.236 0.195 0.153
SNACK 0.738 0.613 0.607 0.564 0.545 0.531 0.557 0.320 0.287 0.246 0.205 0.052
PHONE 0.768 0.642 0.636 0.594 0.575 0.561 0.560 0.350 0.317 0.276 0.235 0.082 0.030
ANIMAL 0.896 0.771 0.765 0.722 0.704 0.690 0.689 0.479 0.446 0.405 0.363 0.210 0.158 0.129
LOCK 0.929 0.803 0.797 0.755 0.736 0.722 0.721 0.511 0.478 0.437 0.396 0.242 0.191 0.161 0.032

Note. Confidence intervals not shown; the 95% confidence margin of error for each proportion was less than +/- 0.001.

Light gray = small effect (h≥0.20)

Medium gray = moderate effect (h≥0.50)

Dark gray = large effect (h≥0.80)