Dr. Hart is interested in the role of relationships in preventing heart disease. As her patients come into her office in Bluebell, Alabama, she asks them two questions: Are you a in a relationship? Have you experienced any heart problems in the last 8 years? Based on her findings, she concludes that relationships cause cardiovascular (heart) problems. One issue with her methodology is that the results are not generalizable. What does this mean?
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Dr. Hart is interested in the role of relationships in preventing heart disease. As her patients come into her office in Bluebell, Alabama, she asks them two questions: Are you a in a relationship? ... Based on her findings, she concludes that relationships cause cardiovascular (heart) problems.
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As per the given situation, it means that her results may not be true for the entire population.
- Dr Hart was curious about how relationships could help people avoid heart illness, and after conducting research, she came to the conclusion that relationships can lead to cardiovascular or heart issues.
- Generalizability is the extent to which research results from a particular sample may be applied to a larger population.
- Hart's strategy of asking just two questions of her patients in Bluebell, Alabama may not be representative of the overall population.
- This is because her sample may not be diverse enough to allow for generalisations about the greater population.
- Therefore, neither her findings nor any inferences made from them may be applicable to anyone outside of the demographic represented by her sample.
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