One relevant suggestion is that researchers should not depend on significance tests alone in reaching conclusions. A more effective means of determining the importance of a relationship is to construct confidence intervals around the correlations. One cannot establish a context effect when a large degree of overlap exists between the confidence intervals of the obtained correlations.

To conclude, the present meta-analysis found no reliable evidence of a contextual effect on the relationship between the Tellegen Absorption Scale and differing measures of hypnotic susceptibility. Only under special circumstances involving a modified and shortened TAS and a specialized measure of susceptibility in very limited use, was any contextual effect found.

In contrast the hypnotic susceptibility scale used in the individual study had a much more profound and substantial influence on the size of the TAS Hypnotizability relationship. Accordingly more effort should be devoted to discerning this complex relationship between what aspects of hypnotic susceptibility are influenced by the TAS.