A new paper published in The Gerontologist provides the most comprehensive scientific response to date addressing recent ...
Ethnographic research, such as observing the setup of a catheter, often leads toideation. But it can also lead to significant device design. In 2001, William Reese and I wrote an article about the use ...
The visual analog scale (VAS) demonstrates comparable validity for perennial allergic rhinitis (PAR) and nonallergic rhinitis ...
There is a distinction that one learns about on the first day of a course in psychological research methods. It is the difference between internal and external validity. Internal validity is ...
Much published science and the "knowledge" resulting from it is likely wrong and sends researchers chasing false leads. Without research integrity, we don’t know what we know, so it is incumbent on ...
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The reproducibility crisis in biomedical research presents a new challenge for conducting harm-benefit analysis: how do we improve the validity of studies to maximize the likelihood of benefit? Every ...
In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...
Improving the validity of your market research can increase the effectiveness of your marketing strategies. When you know what members of your target market are doing and what they want, you can ...