What is a good effect size to assume?
Ideally one taken from comparable studies in your own literature, or from a pilot. Where neither exists, the better question is what is the smallest effect that would be practically meaningful in your field, because detecting a trivial effect at great expense is not a good study design.
This comes up on Sample Size and Statistical Power, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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