face validity

Also, it had good face validity, and normative data is available.

Those would say that if these experts feel the model is adequate, then it has face validity.

Sensitivity to model inputs can also be used to judge face validity.

When tests are given to adults, it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity.

Face validity reflects the extent to which the test items appear to be concerned with the abilities in question.

This analysis addresses face validity: what the test looks like on "the face of it."

However; in fact 'face validity' refers to the test, not the system.

However, for tests which are designed for children, face validity is of relatively little importance.

Build a model that has high face validity.

"One of the things you have to consider is sort of the face validity of what you're doing."

Face validity studies have been criticized for being subjective, intuitive and unsubstantiated.

A public-spirited sentiment about the British legal profession with obvious face validity.

Content validation (also called face validity) checks how well the scale measures what is supposed to measured.

Generally face validity means that the test "looks like" it will work, as opposed to "has been shown to work".

Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity.

Face validity is very closely related to content validity.

Everyday observation of the association of one idea or memory with another gives a face validity to the notion.

Nevertheless, a feeling of unease persists about the face validity of these accounts.

Face validity is the extent to which a test appears to measure what it is supposed to measure.

Measures may have high validity, but when the test does not appear to be measuring what it is, it has low face validity.

Indeed, when a test is subject to faking (malingering), low face validity might make the test more valid.

Although role has become bothersome, "ascription and achievement have such strong face validity that they are rarely challenged or examined".

If a test lacks face validity, applicants may not take it seriously, and this may lower their test performance.

Face validity is often contrasted with content validity.

If you ask an expert in testing spelling, some people would argue that you are not testing face validity.