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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  and
Scott Brooks
Jennifer Diamond Acosta*
Affiliation:
Allstate Insurance Company
Scott Brooks
Affiliation:
OrgVitality
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jdiamondacosta@gmail.com
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 481 - 485
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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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