A New Psychological Test Has a Reliability of Zero

question 64

Multiple Choice

A new psychological test has a reliability of zero. This means that

• A) people who do better than average the first time they take the test will do worse than average the second time.
• B) it is possible to use the scores on this test to make accurate predictions of some behavior outside the test.
• C) scores on the test are normally distributed.
• D) scores fluctuate randomly from one time to another.

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