Psychology / Unit 7 Psych 0817 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Reliable but Not Valid
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The idea
A measure can be highly reliable while being invalid, producing consistent results that do not reflect the intended construct.
In practice
A scale that reads five kilograms heavy every time is perfectly reliable and wrong about weight.
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