Sociology / Unit 2 Soc 0152 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Reliability
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The idea
A measure is reliable when it produces the same result on repeated application to the same thing under the same conditions.
In practice
A scale reading three different weights for one unchanged box in a minute is unreliable, whatever it says.
Where people slip
A reliable measure can be consistently wrong — consistency is not accuracy.
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