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Clarity comments on Psychological validity of the "Seven deadly sins"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 15 November 2015 10:21:04PM *  0 points [-]

Can anyone think of a natural order for the different kinds of validity? I reckon that would be critical to even getting started on this question.

Remember, as the homepage says, rationality isn't about 'being able to answer any question'.

The important kinds of validity are:

  • discriminant validity
  • nomological validity
  • content validity
  • criterion validity
  • construct validity
  • face validity

If the seven deadly sins are a particular useful construct, I'd hypothesise that they could be mapped to the research domain criteria matrix. The same could be said about constructs like 'rationality'.