Janine takes a personality test she finds in the latest issue of "College Freshman" magazine. To her delight, she scores as kind, generous, and caring. When she takes the magazine over to her best friend's dorm and takes the test again along with several other first year students, she cannot understand why this time she scores high in the category of self-centered, vain, and competitive. The fact that Janine can get two very different high scores from the same test after retaking it shows a remarkable lack of _.

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Test-retest reliability refers to the consistency of a test's results when taken by the same person under similar conditions at different times. Janine's different scores indicate a lack of test-retest reliability.

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