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Define external validity in research design. Describe in detail one threat to the external validity of a research study. Be sure to specify how that characteristic is a threat to external validity.
 
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The group of people you select to be in your study is the ____.
 
  a. sample
 b. population
 c. theoretical population
  d. accessible population


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
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External validity is the degree to which the results of a study can be generalized outside the specific confines of the study. A threat to external validity is any feature of the study that limits generalization of the results. Threats to external validity can be classified into three categories: (1) results obtained for a unique group of participants may not generalize to other participants; (2) results obtained from a study with unique features not generalize to other studies; (3) results obtained with a specific measurement procedure may not generalize to other measurement procedures.

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Reply #2 on: Jun 19, 2018
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