While men might feel an economic pinch post-divorce, especially when they must pay child support or alimony on top of their own living expenses, the Utah State University Cooperative Extension indicates that as many as one out of every five divorced women actually falls below the poverty level following a divorce.
invalidate If administrators find out that students cheated on a test, the school might invalidate their class grades. To invalidate means to cancel something or make it void, as if it never happened. In invalidate you see the word valid which means true or correct. When you invalidate something you are making it less true, less official, or less correct. If you buy something that doesn't work properly and then try to fix it yourself, you invalidate the warranty.
External validity is related to generalizing. That's the major thing you need to keep in mind. Recall that validity refers to the approximate truth of propositions, inferences, or conclusions. So, external validity refers to the approximate truth of conclusions the involve generalizations. Put in more pedestrian terms, external validity is the degree to which the conclusions in your study would hold for other persons in other places and at other times. In science there are two major approaches to how we provide evidence for a generalization. I'll call the first approach the Sampling Model.