The correction for attenuation estimates what the magnitude of the correlation between two measured variables would be if
A) a cross-validation study were done.
B) the measures were perfectly reliable.
C) the raw scores were converted to standard scores.
D) the influence of moderator variables were partialled out.

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The correction for attenuation is used to estimate what the correlation between two variables would be if the measures were perfectly reliable, correcting for the underestimation of the true correlation due to measurement error.

The Correction for Attenuation Estimates What the Magnitude of the Correlation