Dr. smith develops the smith depression inventory and gives it to hundreds of patients with depression. he also gives those patients the widely used beck depression inventory. he finds that the average scores on the two questionnaires are highly correlated. dr. smith has demonstrated that the smith depression inventory has
a. concurrent validity
b. predictive validity
c. statistical prediction
d. clinical prediction
Answer: a. concurrent validity
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