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discriminant validity
discriminant validity Discriminant validity is the extent to which a measure can be shown to assess a concept that is distinct from the concept measured by another scale.
Discriminant validity is the extent to which a measure can be shown to assess a concept that is distinct from the concept measured by another scale. In psychology, it is used to test whether two instruments that are often treated as different really reflect separate underlying constructs.