If a hypothetical scale meant to assess knowledge of zoology contained questions about animals, plants, and inanimate objects, the scale would be said to have low _______ validity.
A) convergent
B) predictive
C) content
D) concurrent
E) None of the above

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Content validity refers to the degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure. In this case, if the scale is intended to assess knowledge of zoology but contains questions about plants and inanimate objects, it does not have good content validity. Convergent validity concerns whether the scale is measuring the same construct as other scales that it should be correlated with, predictive validity concerns whether the scale predicts future outcomes, and concurrent validity concerns how well the scale correlates with other measures of the same construct at the same time. None of these are as relevant to the issue at hand as content validity.

If a Hypothetical Scale Meant to Assess Knowledge of Zoology