Which of the Following Statements Is Accurate

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is accurate?

• A)Threats to internal validity are increased by carefully controlling conditions.
• B)Threats to internal validity are decreased by carefully controlling conditions.
• C)Threats to generalizability of research findings in experiments are unrelated to internal validity
• D)Threats to the sample to which the results will apply

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Definitions:

Initial Endowment

The initial allocation of resources, money, or goods that an individual, institution, or country possesses.

Pareto Optimal

An allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Utility Function

A mathematical representation used in economics to model the satisfaction or happiness a consumer derives from consuming goods and services.

Edgeworth Box

A diagram used in microeconomics to show the distribution of resources and the optimality of trade-offs between two agents in an economy.