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What does validity mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  2. Having legal force.
  3. A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
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Two threads in the literature raise important questions about their validity.
I will return to the question of scientific validity at the end of my reply.
This would raise even more questions about the validity of the use of an MLAT, and the Home Office's involvement in it.
Yet this must surely raise questions over the validity of the prize itself.
No question of the validity of a law made by the Parliament arises in these proceedings.
While scientists may well query the value of this kind of concept, I am sure that many social scientists will query its entire validity.

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