If a Certain Test Had a Reliability Value of

question 25

Multiple Choice

If a certain test had a reliability value of .95, then we know that

• A) its validity must also be high
• B) its validity must be low
• C) the test is measuring something very consistently, even though we don't necessarily know what it is that's being measured
• D) none of these, since a test could never have a reliability of .95

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