When a researcher is interested in measuring the consistency of measurement across repeated observations of a variable on the same subject s/he is said to be measuring the ____________ of the measurements.

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The concept described in the question is reliability, which refers to the degree to which repeated measurements of the same variable produce consistent results. Accuracy refers to how closely a measurement corresponds to the true value of the variable, but it does not address consistency over repeated measurements. Repeatedness and observational consistency are not commonly used terms in the measurement literature.

When a Researcher Is Interested in Measuring the Consistency of Measurement