Just like η2 in ANOVA, r2 is interpreted as the amount of variance explained in the outcome variance, and the cut scores are the same as well: 0.01, 0.09, and 0.25 for small, medium, and lar...Just like η2 in ANOVA, r2 is interpreted as the amount of variance explained in the outcome variance, and the cut scores are the same as well: 0.01, 0.09, and 0.25 for small, medium, and large, respectively. Notice here that these are the same cutoffs we used for regular r effect sizes, but squared (0.102 = 0.01, 0.302 = 0.09, 0.502 = 0.25) because, again, the r2 effect size is just the squared correlation, so its interpretation should be, and is, the same.