Define test-retest reliability. How does a sex researcher use this method?
What will be an ideal response?
Test-retest reliability is a method for testing whether self-reports are accurate or reliable. In this method, participants are interviewed (or given a questionnaire) and are then interviewed again after a period of time, for example after a week or a month, to determine whether their answers are the same both times. The correlation between answers at the two different test sessions measures the reliability of responses. If people answer identically both times, the correlation would be 1.0, meaning perfect reliability. If there were absolutely no relationship between what they said the first time and what they said the second time, the correlation would be 0, meaning that the responses are not at all reliable.
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