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NClaborn

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Dr. Hancock wants to ensure his new scale correlates with other scales measuring the same construct. Dr. Hancock is concerned about ___________.
 
  a. testretest reliability
  b. predictive validity
  c. face validity
  d. convergent validity

Question 2

When a scale is related to a concrete outcome of behavior, it has ___________.
 
  a. testretest reliability
  b. predictive validity
  c. face validity
  d. convergent validity


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raenoj

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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D: convergent validity

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B: predictive validity


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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Wow, this really help

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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