If a Study Uses an Unrepresentative Sample, Which of the Following

question 40

Multiple Choice

If a study uses an unrepresentative sample, which of the following questions should you ask when assessing its external validity?

• A)"Are the characteristics that make the sample biased actually relevant to what is being measured?"
• B)"Is the sample size sufficiently large?"
• C)"Is the study making a frequency, association, or causal claim?"
• D)"Could the study have used a representative sample instead?"

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Definitions:

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