External Validity Can Be Reduced by ______ Reducing Representativeness of the Study

question 20

Multiple Choice

External validity can be reduced by ______ reducing representativeness of the study.

• A) the Hawthorne effect
• B) maturation
• C) regression toward the mean
• D) attrition

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