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Amanda and Toni work for a polling institute. They spend hours polling citizens about their positions on various political topics and then the results are compiled. The polling institute then assumes that the trends they see in several hundred respondents apply to the larger population as a whole. This conclusion suggests that the findings are _________.

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Answer: generalizable

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What is generalizability?

When a result of a research is generalizable this means that the obtained results can be used to represent a larger group of people .

If something that is being studied or researched applies to various people or situations, then the results of that study can be used to explain the situation at large; the study can then be referred to as having great generalizability.

When the outcome of a study applies only to minority and can not be used in general then the study can be said to have poor generalizability.

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