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)
Drafted and Reviewed by: Aoife O’Mahony, Adrien Fillon, Matt Jaquiery, Tina Lonsdorf, Sam Parsons, Julia Wolska