Professor Lopez has been working hard to develop a new, 5-item measure of emotional intelligence that will be much easier to administer than an older, well-established measure that has 50-items. Unfortunately, every time he compares his participants' scores on his new measure to their scores on the well-established measure, he finds that the scores are completely unrelated. What should Professor Lopez conclude from these results?

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The fact that the scores on the two measures are completely unrelated suggests that Professor Lopez's new measure has low construct validity, meaning it is not accurately measuring the intended construct of emotional intelligence. It may be easier to administer, but it is not capturing the same information as the well-established measure.

Professor Lopez Has Been Working Hard to Develop a New