The internal validity of web-based studies
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Empirical Musicology ReviewCitation:
Empirical Musicology Review, v3 n3 (July 2008), 161-162Abstract:
Honing and Ladinig (2008) make the assertion that while the
internal validity of web-based studies may be reduced, this is offset by an increase
in external validity possible when experimenters can sample a wider range of
participants and experimental settings. In this paper, the issue of internal validity is
more closely examined, and it is agued that there is no necessary reason why
internal validity of a web-based study should be worse than that of a lab-based
one. Errors of measurement or inconsistencies of manipulation will typically
balance across conditions of the experiment, and thus need not necessarily threaten
the validity of a study’s findings.
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ArticleISSN:
1559-5749Other Identifiers:
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