Scientific abstracts and plain language summaries in psychology: A comparison based on readability indices.

PLoS One · 2020 · PMC7117690 · PMID 32240246

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did not reach statistical significancep = .349not close (p > 0.1)

The main effect of journal did not reach statistical significance, indicating that there was no significant difference between the two journals in the readability of scientific abstracts and PLS, F (1, 101) = 0.88, p = .349, η p 2 = .01.

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