Replicated findings across parent and student populations confirm scale validity

Evidence

To summarize, just as the January parent survey reinforced earlier student results, this study backed up parent-based outcomes. While it may bore one to watch findings from these different populations continually vouching for one another, they do assure the scarred investigator that he is not picking at some extremely tiny nit. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1036

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the general replication-crisis discussion in psychology and the value of cross-population convergent validation in psychometrics. — connects to: A focal definition enables replication and comparison across studies. — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 71; Combining exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis produces theory-driven results robust across samples — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 94