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External validity of social experiments

2024-04-10

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<p>The social sciences have made significant progress in understanding human behavior and social phenomena in the last century. The experimental method has been fundamental for testing theories, searching for and documenting phenomena, developing theories, and generating policy-based evidence. We highlight how failing to recognize these different goals of experimentation can lead to problematic theories and findin...

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Literature Corpus work: 9fce12e3-fdfd-5f8e-960a-3604859a4505
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ekm95

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