Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A drug efficacy effect observed in US trial populations and confirmed in Sub-Saharan African populations.
- Is an instance
A behavioural finding from undergraduates replicated in older non-Western samples.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Re-running the analysis (reproducibility).
- Not an instance
Re-collecting data with the same demographic profile (replicability, not generalisability).
Editorial commentary
Generalisability addresses external validity. A finding may be highly reproducible and replicable within a specific population yet fail to generalise to other populations, time periods, or contexts. Sampling, recruitment, and the representativeness of the study setting all bear on generalisability.
References
- Shadish, Cook, Campbell, 'Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference' (2002); National Academies (2019).
Also known as
external validity · transportability
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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