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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
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
P. D. Harms*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
*
*Corresponding author. Email: pdharms@cba.ua.edu

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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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