Obvious relationship to the construct that they measure. (MMPI) measures many personality characteristics and disorders by having people decide whether each of over 567 different statements applies to them-where many of the statements do not have any The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory It is also the case that many established measures in psychology work quite well despite lacking face validity. One reason is that it is based on people’s intuitions about human behavior, It appears to measure what it is intended to-it is usually assessed informally.įace validity is at best a very weak kind of evidence that a measurement method is measuring what it is supposed to.
Although face validity can be assessed quantitatively-for example, by having a large sample of people rate a measure in terms of whether With self-esteem and therefore has poor face validity. The finger-length method of measuring self-esteem, on the other hand, seems to have nothing to do So a questionnaire that included these kinds of items would have good face validity.
Most people would expect a self-esteem questionnaire to include items about whether they see themselves as a person of worth and whether they think they have good Available under Creative Commons-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.į a c e v a l i dity is the extent to which a measurement method appears “on its face” to measure
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