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Why a Trade-Off? The Relationship between the External and Internal Validity of Experiments
Theoria, 2010 Much of the methodological discussion around experiments in economics and other social sciences is framed in terms of the notions of internal and external validity. The standard view is that internal validity and external validity stand in a relationship
Maria Jimenez-Buedo, Luis Miguel Miller
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Unifying SoTL Methodology: Internal and External Validity
Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 2018 A broad consensus exists that the use of appropriate methods are important in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. However, methodological controversies arise around what constitutes acceptable evidence, if one needs a control group, how ...
Jeffrey L. Bernstein
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Validity of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) in a Brazilian Sample
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The study of the relationship between reasoning and emotional processes is not new in Psychology. There are currently two main approaches to understanding the aspects related to these processes called emotional intelligence: the ability model and the ...
Ana Carolina Zuanazzi +3 more
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On the Feasibility of Extending Social Experiments to Wider Applications
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2016 Background: When deciding how to allocate limited funds for social programs, policymakers and program managers increasingly ask for evidence of effectiveness based on studies that rely on solid methodology, providing credible scientific evidence.
Stephen H. Bell, Laura R. Peck
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 Gruntkowski and Martinez examined the impact of factors such as perceived risk and perceived usefulness on German consumers’ intention to purchase groceries online once the COVID-19 pandemic had subsided.
Leo Van Hove
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The Importance of External Validity
American Journal of Public Health, 2008 How are research results translated to public health practice? What is the responsibility of researchers, funding agencies, and journals in facilitating the use of research results in public health programs or policies? We address selected aspects of these questions and announce a new emphasis of the Journal on external validity for appropriate ...
Allan, Steckler, Kenneth R, McLeroy
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Economic games are well-established tools that offer a convenient approach to study social behaviour. Although widely used, recent evidence suggests that decisions made in the context of standard economic games are less predictive of real-world behaviour
L. Safra +3 more
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The predictive power of farmers’ risk attitude measures elicited by experimental methods
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020 Aim of study: Farmers’ behavior is shaped by their individual attitudes towards risk. Consequently, an understanding of the heterogeneous risk attitudes among farmers is key to predicting their decision-making.
José A. Gómez-Limón +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 The low replicability of scientific studies has become an important issue. One possible cause is low representativeness of the experimental design employed.
Enrique Hernández-Arteaga, Anders Ågmo
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Against external validity [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 Francesco Guala once wrote that ‘The problem of extrapolation (or external validity as it is sometimes called) is a minor scandal in the philosophy of science’. This paper agrees with the statement, but for reasons different from Guala’s. The scandal is not, or not any longer, that the problem has been ignored in the philosophy of science.
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