If You Are Interviewing Emergency Responders About Disaster Preparedness and During

question 37

Multiple Choice

If you are interviewing emergency responders about disaster preparedness and during the course of the study, a major flood occurs elsewhere which is heavily documented by the media. What form of threat to internal validity might you be concerned about?

• A) concurrent event threat
• B) maturation threat
• C) history threat
• D) instrumentation threat

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Child Abuse

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