Dr. specializes in treating pathological gambling, which means being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having
a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new survey to measure pathological gambling. The survey has 15 questions. has now decided that he wants to test his measure on some university students (who some estimates say have a 6% prevalence rate of compulsive gambling). He has a group of 100 university students complete his measure. He also has them complete two other measures (one that measures addictive behavior in general and one that measures general attitudes toward gambling). He finds that his new measure is positively associated with each of these other measures. This procedure has provided evidence for the _________ of measure.
<em>This procedure has provided evidence for the Dr to determine whether they are suffering from the compulsive gambling impluses and the measures to adopt inorder to overcome such.</em>
Without adminstring the survey, the Dr. would not have been able to know if the impulses was as widespread as he has imagined and the likely solution towards treating pathological gambling by his clients could not have been discovered and applied.
