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Descriptive statistics are powerful tools for organizational research practitioners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

Jennifer Diamond Acosta*
Affiliation:
Allstate Insurance Company
Scott Brooks
Affiliation:
OrgVitality
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jdiamondacosta@gmail.com

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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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