A researcher conducts a new study and gets a significant result. Another researc

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A researcher conducts a new study and gets a significant result. Another researcher attempts to replicate the study and does not get a significant result. Which of the following is an explanation for what happened:

a. All of these are valid possible explanations

b. The replication study did not have a large enough sample size to find the effect

c. The original significant result was a false positive

d. The non-significant result in the replication is a false negative

e. The original study has limited external validity - it does not generalize to new settings or populations

Explanation / Answer

a. All of these are valid possible explanations is the answer because any of the above scenarios can be true for difference in the results

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