In assessing your newly developed scale for measuring anti-Semitism, you get highly similar results when you administer your scale twice to the same group. You also get a high correlation between your new anti-Semitism scale and another scale designed to measure the tendency of people to give socially desirable responses. According to this evidence, your scale is
A) reliable but not valid.
B) valid but reliable.
C) both reliable and valid.
D) neither reliable nor valid.

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The scale is reliable because it produces consistent results over time. However, the high correlation with a social desirability scale suggests it may not be valid, as it might be measuring the tendency to give socially desirable responses rather than anti-Semitism.

In Assessing Your Newly Developed Scale for Measuring Anti-Semitism, You