Validity

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  • Created on: 15-10-20 19:30
The quality of how genuinely the data represents reality
validity
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Internal validity
Inside the study
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External validity
outside the study
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generalise findings to other people
Population validity
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generalise findings to other periods of time
Historical validity
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generalise to other settings
Ecological validity
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generalise to the real world
Mundane realism
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whether a self-report measure looks like it measures what the researcher intended to measure
Face validity
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comparing the current method of measuring stress with a previously validated one of the same topic.
Concurrent validity
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Investigator effects, demand characteristics, confounding variables, extraneous variables, social desirability, poorly operationalised behavioural categories
Problems with internal validity
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Questionnaires, anonymous responses, observations, qualitative methods and triangulation
Improving validity
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generalise findings to other people

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generalise findings to other periods of time

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