A psychologist tries out a new intelligence test on a child. One month later, she administers the same test to the same child and finds little correlation between the two administrations of the test. In testing terminology, it would be said that the test is:
A. context-dependent
B. sensitive
C. unreliable
D. invalid
Answer: C
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