A measure of clerical speed is obtained by a test that has respondents alphabetize index cards. The manual for this test cites a split-half reliability coefficient for a single administration of the test of .95. What might you conclude?
A. Clerical speed is too vague a construct to measure.
B. The split-half estimate should not have been used in this instance.
C. The test is highly reliable.
D. The published reliability estimate is spuriously low and would have been higher had another estimate been used.
Answer: B
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