Scale Validity

Hi, thanks for getting this page going!

I just wanted to confirm that specific gender diagnosticity studies by definition do not attempt to imply causation; GD studies furthermore only apply to a particular group at a particular time, and are not meant to make broad inferences about whole populations (Lippa, 1990, p. 1053). Perhaps we could make this clear in one or the other of these discussions of validity.

Yes, external validity.

Excellent point, Kevin, and I think this would be the best place to point that out. We could talk about how this is only meant to be used for a particular group here, and note the generalizability limitations in the limitations section.

Yeah, that's what i thought too so I've mentioned that the causation effect can be neglected. Should we still talk about internal validity then? Because it seems to me that it doesnt apply to this particular GD study.