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What do you mean by reliability? Discuss the importance of reliability in social science research.

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  • Research Methods and Analysis

Reliability is the consistency, stability, and repeatability of a measure — an instrument is reliable if it produces the same result each time it is applied to the same, unchanged phenomenon.

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  • Defining Reliability and Its Relationship to Validity
  • The Importance of Reliability in Social Research
  • The Positivist Standard Against the Qualitative Critique

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