SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stipulative Definition, Content Validity, Face Validity
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Validity: the extent to which an empirical measure adequately reflects the agreed upon meaning of the concept criterion related to what is intends to measure: face validity: whether a measure corresponds with common agreements and our individual mental images of a, criterion related validity (predictive validity): whether a measure can predict future behavior on an external, construct validity: whether a measure relates to other variables as we"d logically expect, content validity: how much a measure covers the range of meanings included within the concept, reliability does not ensure accuracy. Nominal (everyone must be able to be categorized on the attributes provided: variables whose attributes are mutually exclusive (every person can only be in one category) and jointly exhaustive, attributes are non ordered categories, cannot be ranked, no higher, no lower > cannot be ranked, examples: religious affiliation, gender, career, etc.
