If the residents,staff,and facilities of a nursing home where a quasi-experiment was done are likely to be different from those in other nursing homes,then the findings of the study are likely to lack
A)reliability.
B)statistical significance.
C)internal validity.
D)external validity.

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The lack of similarity in residents, staff, and facilities of the nursing home creates a threat to external validity, which refers to the generalizability of the study findings to other settings or populations. If the study participants are not representative of the population of interest, the results cannot be generalized to other nursing homes or groups of older adults. Therefore, the correct answer is D, external validity.

If the Residents,staff,and Facilities of a Nursing Home Where a Quasi-Experiment