While the items indicating externalizing behavior problems at 18 months have been used in a previous publication from the MoBa database [ 61] the use of these abbreviated, and not validated versions of the original scales may threaten the validity of the results.
A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid disturbing diplomatic relations, said that the Obama administration looked forward to working with Mr. Hollande, and that it did not believe that making changes to the fiscal compact would spook markets or threaten the validity of the overall agreement, which helped bring down sovereign debt yields this winter.
We show that its magnitude is small, and does not threaten the validity of our findings.
In this section, we highlight the biases that threaten the validity of the case study.
In this section, the various factors that threaten the validity of our results are summarized.
This section describes some issues that may threaten the validity of our results.
We now investigate the effect of a series of confounding factors that could threaten the validity of our previous results.
These factors, however, do not threaten the validity of self-reports of each type of behavior equally.
Detecting and delineating the potential sources that may threaten the validity of standardized tests of English proficiency is therefore of great importance.
Although Harman's test reveals that common method bias does not severely threaten the validity of our results, its influence cannot be completely excluded.
In this section we discuss the factors that could reduce the effectiveness of our proposed scheme or threaten the validity of its operations and output.
