Professor Jenkins is interested in attitudes toward the trying juveniles as adults and plans to assess support for this hypothesis by asking whether or not subjects say they would travel to countries that allow juveniles to stand trial as an adult.Critics would say this measure lacks:
A) face validity
B) criterion-related validity
C) content validity
D) construct validity

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Face validity refers to whether a measure appears to be measuring what it is intended to measure. In this case, asking whether or not someone would travel to a country that allows juveniles to stand trial as adults may not necessarily be a direct measure of their attitudes toward trying juveniles as adults, and thus lacks face validity. It is possible for someone to say they would go to such a country for reasons unrelated to their beliefs about juvenile justice.

Professor Jenkins Is Interested in Attitudes Toward the Trying Juveniles