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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Rev. 2019 Aug 15;126(6):865–879. doi: 10.1037/rev0000156

Table 3.

Best case scenario where spoilers genuinely don’t spoil stories (regardless of genre) for everyone in a subpopulation that makes up a proportion p of the population. Each of the bottom three rows contains the effect size d and upper bounds on qi, the proportion of variance attributed to individual differences, for six different values of p.

p 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.95 0.99
d zp 0.2533 0.5244 0.8416 1.2816 1.6499 2.3263
0.18 q1 ≤ 0.25 ≤ 0.059 ≤ 0.023 ≤ 0.0099 ≤0.0060 ≤0.0030
0.34 q2 ≤ 0.90 ≤ 0.21 ≤ 0.082 ≤ 0.035 ≤0.021 ≤0.011
0.22 q3 ≤ 0.38 ≤ 0.088 ≤ 0.034 ≤ 0.015 ≤0.0089 ≤0.0045