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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Validity \Va*lid"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. validit['e], L. validitas strength.]
The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
(Law) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.
Value. [Obs.] ``Rich validity.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French validité or directly from Late Latin validitatem (nominative validitas) "strength," from Latin validus (see valid).
Wiktionary
n. 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).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Validity is the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world. The word "valid" is derived from the Latin validus, meaning strong. The validity of a measurement tool (for example, a test in education) is considered to be the degree to which the tool measures what it claims to measure; in this case, the validity is an equivalent to accuracy.
In psychometrics, validity has a particular application known as test validity: "the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores" ("as entailed by proposed uses of tests").
It is generally accepted that the concept of scientific validity addresses the nature of reality and as such is an epistemological and philosophical issue as well as a question of measurement. The use of the term in logic is narrower, relating to the truth of inferences made from premises.
Validity is important because it can help determine what types of tests to use, and help to make sure researchers are using methods that are not only ethical, and cost-effective, but also a method that truly measures the idea or construct in question.
In logic, an argument is valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. It is not required that a valid argument have premises that are actually true, but to have premises that, if they were true, would guarantee the truth of the argument's conclusion. A formula is valid if and only if it is true under every interpretation, and an argument form (or schema) is valid if and only if every argument of that logical form is valid.
Validity is a property of a logical argument.
Validity may also refer to:
- Validity (statistics), the application of the principles of statistics to arrive at valid conclusions
- Test validity, validity in educational and psychological testing
- Internal validity, the validity of causal inferences within scientific studies, usually based on experiments
- Statistical conclusion validity, establishes the existence and strength of the co-variation between the cause and effect variables
- Construct validity, refers to whether a scale measures or correlates with the theorized psychological construct it measures
- External validity, the validity of generalized causal inferences in scientific studies, usually based on experiments
- Face validity, the property of a test intended to measure something
- Predictive validity, the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some other measure
- Content validity, the extent to which a measure represents all facets of a given construct
- Concurrent validity, the extent to which a test correlates with another measure
- Discriminant validity, the degree to which results a test of one concept can be expected to differ from tests of other concepts that should not be correlated with this one
- Convergent validity, the degree to which multiple measures of the same construct lead to the same conclusion
- Representation validity, also known as translation validity
- Criterion validity
Usage examples of "validity".
He had learned her opinions on the subject of Aberrancy over the weeks they had spent together, and while he did not agree with much of what she said, it had enough validity to make him think.
There were two significant challenges brought against the validity of absentee ballots.
In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.
This case involved the validity of an act of Congress directing the judge of the territorial court of Florida to examine and adjudge claims of Spanish subjects against the United States and to report his decisions with evidence thereon to the Secretary of the Treasury who in turn was to pay the award to the claimant if satisfied that the decisions were just and within the terms of the treaty of cession.
Inasmuch as it is within the power of a State to provide that one who has undertaken administration of an estate shall remain subject to the order of its courts until said administration is closed, it follows that there can be no question as to the validity of a judgment for unadministered assets obtained on service of publication plus service personally upon an executor in the State in which he had taken refuge and in which he had been adjudged incompetent.
Constitution which precludes Congress from making criminal the violation of an administrative regulation, by one who has failed to avail himself of an adequate separate procedure for the adjudication of its validity, or which precludes the practice, in many ways desirable, of splitting the trial for violations of an administrative regulation by committing the determination of the issue of its validity to the agency which created it, and the issue of violation to a court which is given jurisdiction to punish violations.
Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.
You see, though the accuracy and validity of my occasional clairvoyant visions had been established, there were many who did not view my unusual talents as a blessing.
Opposed to this is the view that the right of Congress to delegate power to the President is limited in this as in other cases but that where the validity of the delegation depends upon whether or not too great a latitude of discretion has been conferred upon the Executive, the existence of a state of war is a factor to be considered in determining whether the delegation in the particular case is necessary and hence permissible.
Likewise, the highest State court usually has final authority in construing State statutes and determining their validity in relation to the State constitution.
The offender conceded the validity of the rationing order in support of which the suspension order was issued, but challenged the validity of the latter as imposing a penalty that Congress has not enacted, and asked the district court to enjoin it.
Habermas arrives at a series of universal validity claims that are cross-cultural and extra-linguistic, and open to fallibilist criteria.
And since the Assembly had repudiated historicity and precedent, those legitimating principles had, necessarily, to claim universal validity.
By the same token, the validity of a franchise tax, imposed on a domestic corporation engaged in foreign maritime commerce and assessed upon a proportion of the total franchise value equal to the ratio of local business done to total business, is not impaired by the fact that the total value of the franchise was enhanced by property and operations carried on beyond the limits of the State.
Nor was the validity of the order to produce such materials viewed as having been impaired by the fact that it sought to elicit proof not only as to the liability of the corporation but also, evidence in its possession relevant to its defense.