The students of a university in Massachusetts were asked to evaluate their professors and the courses they teach. The results revealed that most of the students gave a very low rating to one of their professors because they did not like his teaching techniques. The data collected in this scenario is most likely to lack _____.

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The data may lack validity because the students' ratings were based on their personal likes or dislikes of the teaching techniques, rather than an objective measure of the professor's teaching effectiveness.

The Students of a University in Massachusetts Were Asked to Evaluate