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face validity

noun

  1. psychol the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The concept of peer support has face validity, Shapiro says.

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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.

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The particular standard applied to make these judgments for Most Connected Hospitals was face validity.

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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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