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Reliability

By Jim Frost

In statistics, reliability is the consistency a measure. If you measure the same thing many times, are the measurements consistent? A highly reliable measure is more consistent than a measure with low reliability.

A measure can be reliable but not valid. In other words, you can obtain consistent measurements but you might not be measuring what you think you are measuring. Ideally, you want a measure that is both reliable and valid.

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