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Utility of Reliability and Validity in Social Research.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Reliability and validity are the two properties on which every claim social research makes ultimately rests, but the question of their utility is distinct from the question of what they mean.

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  • The Utility of Reliability: Replication, Comparability, and Standardised Large-Scale Work
  • The Utility of Validity: Ensuring Research Measures — and Therefore Informs — the Right Thing
  • Utility Depends on Holding Both Together

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