What Is the Relationship Between a Material's Brittleness and Its

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What is the relationship between a material's brittleness and its tensile strength?

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Definitions:

Scale Purity

Scale purity is a concept in psychometrics referring to the degree to which items on a test measure a single, coherent construct or dimension, contributing to the test's validity.

Discriminant Validity

The degree to which a measure is not correlated with other variables from which it is theoretically supposed to differ.

BDI-II

The Beck Depression Inventory-II, a widely used 21-item self-report inventory measuring the severity of depression.

Convergent Validity

The degree to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.