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shofmannx20

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Reducing possible threats to internal validity will most likely lead to
 
  a) Increasing the statistical significance of the findings
  b) Increasing the external validity of the findings
  c) Decreasing the generality of the findings
  d) Decreasing the validity of the conclusions

Question 2

A critic reviews a study and challenges the findings, pointing out that the subjects had reactivity and were aware of the experiment due to an obvious pretest. Is this challenge appropriate, and why or why not?
 
  a) No, because the findings may still be applicable.
  b) No, because the findings are typically generalizable.
  c) Yes, because the findings lack external validity.
  d) Yes, because the findings have serious internal validity errors.



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kjo;oj

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: a




shofmannx20

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Wow, this really help


daiying98

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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