What Type of Validity Ensures That the Test Provides Data

question 26

Multiple Choice

What type of validity ensures that the test provides data consistent with theoretical postulates associated with the phenomenon being assessed?

• A) Content validity
• B) Concurrent validity
• C) Discriminate validity
• D) Incremental validity

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Definitions:

Median Voter Theorem

A principle in political science proposing that the outcome of a majority vote is most likely to match the preferences of the median voter, assuming voters can be placed along a single-dimensional policy space.

Impossibility

A condition or situation that cannot be achieved or is unattainable.

Median Voter

A theory in political science that suggests the outcome of a majority vote is most likely to correspond to the preferences of the median voter when voters' preferences are placed along a single-dimensional spectrum.

Majority Rule

A decision-making principle whereby the option receiving more than half of the votes wins.