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Reliability

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A measure is reliable when it produces the same result on repeated application to the same thing under the same conditions.

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A scale reading three different weights for one unchanged box in a minute is unreliable, whatever it says.

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A reliable measure can be consistently wrong — consistency is not accuracy.