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=== Threats to Validity / Limitations === Every study has limitations and important threats to your validity. It's your job to describe all the way that your results are contingent. In particular, make sure you discuss: ;Threats to internal validity: Why might we doubt the results of this work? What assumptions that underly your results may not hold? Why not? What are the threats to construct validity that underly your analysis? ;Threats to external validity: Explain why your work might fail to generalize to other empirical settings or samples? To the extent that you can present evidence, additional analyses, or robustness checks that address these concerns, that's great. To the extent that some of these concerns will be left on the table, it's better for you to foreground these here. Explain why, even with important threats and limitations, you think your work still makes an important contribution.
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