Experimenters Using Quasi-Experimental Designs Rule Out Threats to Internal Validity

question 61

Multiple Choice

Experimenters using quasi-experimental designs rule out threats to internal validity by doing all but which one of the following?

• A) using probability sampling
• B) including special design features
• C) examining additional data that bear on specific validity threats
• D) reasoning against the plausibility of particular validity threats

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