Question

A researcher designed a new questionnaire to measure political conservatism. To test out his new instrument, he asks people leaving their polling place on election day to report their degree of political conservatism on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) and then complete his questionnaire. Results show that people who identified themselves as political conservatives also had the highest scores on his questionnaire.This is an indication of the ______ of the new instrument.
a) criterion validity
b) content validity
c) face validity
d) predictive validity

Answer 1

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