A researcher is developing a measure of the impact of living in high-crime neighborhoods and, in assessing its reliability administers it to the same people on two occasions several weeks apart. The researcher is assessing ____ reliability.

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Test-retest reliability involves administering the same measure to the same group of people at two different time points to assess consistency over time. In this scenario, the researcher is administering the measure to the same people on two occasions, making test-retest reliability the most applicable option. Inter-rater reliability involves assessing consistency between different raters or judges, split-half reliability involves dividing a measure into two parts and assessing consistency between those parts, and face validity refers to whether a measure appears, on the surface, to be measuring what it claims to measure.

A Researcher Is Developing a Measure of the Impact of Living