Generalizability

Definition: Generalizability refers to how applicable a study’s results are to broader groups of people, settings, or situations they study and how the findings relate to this wider context (Frey, 2018; Kukull & Ganguli, 2012).

Alternative definition: Applying modified materials and/or analysis pipelines to new data or samples to answer the same hypothesis (different materials, different data) to test how generalizable the effect under study is (The Turing Way Community & Scriberia, 2021).

Related terms: Conceptual replication, External Validity, Opportunistic sampling, Sampling bias, WEIRD

Related term to alternative definition: : Conceptual Replication

References: Esterling et al. (2021), Frey (2018), Kukull and Ganguli (2012), LeBel et al. (2017), Nosek and Errington (2020), & Yarkoni (2020)

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