The most important factor to ensure that one's results apply to other people in other settings is to use?

A method that no one has used before. before you can publicize your work, result and findings, you have to ensure that it catches the attention of the public and it is of great importance that such result is what the general public can copy from, it has to impact the society or your surrounding with facts and information that the general public are not familiar with.

The best approach if you want your results to apply to other people is use a method that is not common, something someone has not used before.