Generalizability | Understanding Medical Research

Generalizability asks whether the people in a study resemble the people you actually want to know about. This video covers the ways a sound study can still come from the wrong sample and the questions to carry into any paper: who was studied, and who do you care about? Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:48 A campus survey on beach reads 02:37 Right question, wrong sample 03:25 Study population too specific 05:01 Doctors and smoking, 1954 06:31 Wrong population entirely 08:21 Mice are not humans 09:31 Take-home points Learning objectives: After watching, you'll be able to: - Describe generalizability and how it depends on the sample matching the population of interest - Classify a study's generalizability problem as too narrow a population, the wrong population, or a non-human model - Judge whether a study that generalizes poorly should still count as evidence 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewVyTec_MVGxIbNSEeMhEsZ 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/understanding-medical-research-your-facebook-friend-wrong