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face validity
noun
- psychol the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
Example Sentences
The concept of peer support has face validity, Shapiro says.
I suspect you will find few older adults who are exercising routinely that will stop because an RCT has shown that exercise is associated with more net hospitalizations - a finding which lacks face validity.
"It lacks face validity," she says.
The particular standard applied to make these judgments for Most Connected Hospitals was face validity.
The concept of splitting the jobs—a way of putting less power into one person's hands—gained currency following the corporate scandals early in the last decade, said Matthew Semadeni, a professor at Arizona State University who studies corporate governance. "It has face validity," he said.
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