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Conducting research in natural settings is difficult and challenging, but provides the reward of _____________

(a) internal validity,
(b) statistical validity,
(c) face validity,
(d) good generalization of results to real-world settings

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I agree with your answer: conducting research in natural settings provides the reward of good generalization of the results to real-world settings.
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