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casperchen82

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Describe the kind of question that each of the major five research strategies intends to answer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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A threat to external validity is an explanation of how making a generalization might be wrong.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



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Answer to Question 1

The experimental strategy intends to answer the question, Is there a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables? The quasi-experimental strategy intends to answer the question, Is there evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables? The non-experimental strategy answers the question, Is there a relationship between two variables? The correlational strategy answers the question, Is there a relationship between two variables? Finally, the descriptive strategy answers the question, What is the current status of individual variables for a specific group of individuals?

Answer to Question 2

True



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