A researcher designed a new questionnaire to measure political conservatism. To test out his new instrument, he asks people leaving their polling place on election day to report their degree of political conservatism on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) and then complete his questionnaire. Results show that people who identified themselves as political conservatives also had the highest scores on
his questionnaire. This is an indication of the ______ of the new instrument.
a. criterion validity
b. content validity
c. face validity
d. predictive validity
a
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