Dr.Groeneveld and Dr.Duran are investigating whether drivers are wearing their seatbelts.They stand on opposite street corners and tally how many drivers passing by are wearing their seatbelts.Which type of reliability does this approach assess when comparing their final tallies across a large number of drivers?
A)inter-rater reliability
B)internal consistency reliability
C)equivalent forms reliability
D)test-retest reliability

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Inter-rater reliability assesses the degree to which different raters/observers give consistent estimates of the same phenomenon. In this case, Dr. Groeneveld and Dr. Duran are observing the same behavior (drivers wearing seatbelts) from different viewpoints, and their agreement on observations would reflect inter-rater reliability.

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