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You design a new test to measure psychopathy. You correlate your new test with the Psychopathy ChecklistRevised and the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale. You find that your test is highly correlated with these two previously designed tests. This is an example of what?

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Predictive criterion validity

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Your test been highly correlated with already established tests ( previously designed ) shows an example of Predictive criterion validity

A predictive Criterion is the likelihood of accurately predicting the outcome/result of an experiment or event against established results, it can also be described as the degree of closeness of an experiment to an already established criterion

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