Professor Tak Tanaka developed a new measure of fear of crime.His conceptual definition was this: "The degree of emotional,behavioural,or mental response to a real or imagined theft of property or attack on one's person or family members." He then developed one question for a survey to measure his concept: "Do you lock your car doors when you park to go shopping?" What is the major problem with his measure?
A)Reliability
B)Content validity
C)Face validity
D)Internal validity
E)Representative validity

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While the question may be indirectly related to fear of crime, it does not sufficiently cover the conceptual definition of the construct. This means that the measure lacks content validity, as it fails to fully capture the concept it was intended to measure. Additionally, locking one's car doors may not necessarily be a universal indicator of fear of crime and may lead to inaccurate or unreliable results, impacting the measure's reliability.

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