A researcher conducts a very carefully designed experiment on the relationship between time spent viewing violent video games and the incidence of violent behaviour.The researcher then generalizes these results to the broader gaming community.If the research accurately reflects behaviours in the broader gaming community,then what can be said about this experiment?
A) It has spurious results.
B) It has external validity.
C) It has sampling.
D) It has internal validity.

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External validity refers to the ability to generalize research findings to other populations or settings beyond the original study. If the researcher was able to accurately generalize the findings to the broader gaming community, then the study has external validity. The other options do not apply to this scenario: spurious results refer to a finding that appears to be meaningful but is actually due to chance or other variable; sampling refers to the way participants were selected for the study; and internal validity refers to the ability to draw causal inferences from the study design, which is not specified in this scenario.

A Researcher Conducts a Very Carefully Designed Experiment on the Relationship