You are training for a 10K race and want to know if your running time is decreasing so you use your cell phone to time your runs which follow the same course each day. You find that your running times vary by more than 5 min and not always in the same direction. According to your cell phone, sometimes you go faster and sometimes slower. You begin to question the ______ of the stopwatch on your cell phone.
A. reliability
B. validity
C. confounding variability
D. warranty
Ans: A
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a. demonstrative knowledge b. empirical knowledge c. innate knowledge d. associative knowledge
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
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