Janine takes a personality test she finds in the latest issue of “College Freshman” magazine. To her delight, she scores as kind, generous and caring. When she takes the magazine over to her best friend's dorm and takes the test again along with several other freshmen, she cannot understand why this time she scores in the category of self-centered, vain and competitive. The fact that Janine can get two very different scores from the same test after retaking it shows a remarkable ________ of ________.
A. reliability; internal consistency
B. test; retest validity
C. lack; internal consistency
D. lack; reliability
D. lack; reliability
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