Taking a Broader Perspective: The Problem of External Validity When researchers replicate statistically significant research findings, this increases our confidence that these findings were not produced by
A)demand characteristics.
B)experimenter bias.
C)Type 1 error.
D)Type 2 error.

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Replicating statistically significant research findings helps to ensure that the results were not due to a Type 1 error, which occurs when researchers incorrectly reject a true null hypothesis, mistakenly concluding that there is a significant effect when there is not.

Taking a Broader Perspective: the Problem of External Validity When