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The problem is commonly solved using standardized effect sizes such as Cohen\u2019s\n                    <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Despite being widely adopted, this approach is flawed. The misunderstanding is that standardized measures are dimensionless by definition\u2014two\n                    <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                    do not share the same dimension, as they do not have any. The present work explores alternative approaches to meta-analysis: Multivariate meta-analysis jointly models correlated outcomes while preserving their original unit; Imputation techniques treat the different outcome measures as a missing data problem. We evaluate these approaches through Monte Carlo simulation and an application to real data from psychotherapy studies. Results confirm that under missingness at random, multivariate meta-analysis provides meaningful and precise estimates. 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