How Could a Nurse Researcher's Use of a Homogeneous Population

question 7

Multiple Choice

How could a nurse researcher's use of a homogeneous population of subjects in a research study weaken that study?

• A) Decreased reliability of the findings
• B) Decreased generalizability of the findings
• C) Increased number of subjects needed to reach statistical significance
• D) Increased risk that the findings were the result of chance alone

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