Explain how random assignment is associated with internal validity and random selection is associated with external validity

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Random assignment of participants to groups is useful for creating equivalent groups. Thus, differences at the end of the study are likely to be due to differences in the level of the IV. Random selection provides for representative samples because there are no biases that systematically include one group of people or exclude another group.

Political Science

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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