id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_k5zhlm7bbzculhhuyf4d6wchgm Francesco Guala Experimental Localism and External Validity 2003 11 .pdf application/pdf 4871 342 56 problems of external validity (or how to generalize experimental results to nonlaboratory problem of external validity by extending Mayo's error-probabilistic approach. I shall call ''radical localism'' the view that experimental results do not But instead of relying on the logical problem of induction, radical localism uses the history of science to argue for ''artificially.'' Experimenters in the human sciences use a special terminology to capture this tension, by distinguishing between the ''internal'' whether a result is valid outside the experimental circumstances unless we problem of identifying causal relations, external validity involves an inference to the robustness of a causal relation outside the narrow circumstances results of experiments on mice, for example, unless you have good (experimental) grounds to believe that certain differences between the anatomy of 1205experimental localism and external validity 1205experimental localism and external validity 1205experimental localism and external validity 1205experimental localism and external validity 1205experimental localism and external validity ./cache/work_k5zhlm7bbzculhhuyf4d6wchgm.pdf ./txt/work_k5zhlm7bbzculhhuyf4d6wchgm.txt