Jenny reads the following headline on an online article: "If You're Sexist, People Will Think You're Racist, and Vice Versa." (This headline is based on a study conducted by Sanchez and colleagues, 2017.) This study found that members of stigmatized groups are threatened by prejudice directed at other stigmatized groups. Their results showed that White women can be threatened by racism, and men of color threatened by sexism, and that these perceptions made participants expect unfair treatment.
Because of the design of this study, Sanchez and colleagues are likely more interested in than .
A)construct validity; generalizing to all minority groups
B)the effect size of their findings; construct validity
C)generalizing to all minority groups; statistical validity
D)external validity; validating their causal claims

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The study focuses on understanding the perceptions and experiences of specific groups, which relates to construct validity, rather than generalizing findings to all minority groups.

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