Selecting and Recruiting Subjects Since Andrew only had 3 days to collect experimental data, he obtained a convenience sample of students eating lunch in the cafeteria.Nonprobability sampling worried him because of risk to his experiment's
A)effect size.
B)external validity.
C)internal validity.
D)statistical power.

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Nonprobability sampling, such as a convenience sample, primarily threatens external validity because it may not accurately represent the broader population, making it difficult to generalize the findings.

Selecting and Recruiting Subjects Since Andrew Only Had 3 Days