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Generalizability

the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability; "Although useful, such samples are not representative of the scientific workforce as a whole and thus have limited generalizability" - UD_English-GUM Corpus; "This study is limited in its power and generalizability." - UD_English-GUM Corpus; "When altering specific methodological or participant characteristics of a previous study, they serve to test generalizability of the earlier findings under different conditions." -

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