1. Often one isn't interested in differences of any size but only those that exceed a meaningful size.
2. Too seldom the level of decisions is not explicitly taken into account. For individual decisions a much larger effect size might be necessary to justify the intervention (like to quit smoking) than on a population level (like to make cigarettes more expensive).
>It is a kind of weird trick
Statisticians hate this guy!
1. Often one isn't interested in differences of any size but only those that exceed a meaningful size.
2. Too seldom the level of decisions is not explicitly taken into account. For individual decisions a much larger effect size might be necessary to justify the intervention (like to quit smoking) than on a population level (like to make cigarettes more expensive).
ad 1. Smallest effect size of interest (SESOI, see Lakens et al., 2018)