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Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 22   EBP 3163 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Threats to Internal Validity

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The idea

A designer anticipates the threats that could make a study's result reflect something other than the intervention, and builds against them in advance.

In practice

A design that guards against a known threat rather than reporting it later.

Where people slip

Unit 06 taught these as biases an appraiser finds. The designer's job is to make them not happen.

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