What is validity?

What will be an ideal response?

In the context of diagnosis, validity refers to the extent with which a diagnosis, a classification, provides useful information. If a label provides no meaningful information, if it offers no information with clinical utility, it is not valid.

Psychology

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If one calculates a correlation of -1.20, this coefficient indicates that a

a. perfect negative relationship exists. b. moderately strong relationship exists. c. weak correlation exists. d. miscalculation has occurred.

Psychology

Scott's approach to personnel selection was to assess the traits of those successful in an occupation, rather than to define necessary traits ahead of time

a. True b. False

Psychology