Contemporary researchers have mistakenly continued to assert that no procedure exists for assessing the statistical significance of congruence coefficients. Such a procedure, however, has existedfor more than a decade. This study presents and illustrates the procedure and discusses the problems that can arise as information is disseminated through academic channels.
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