validity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with validity, each labelled with its topic.

• Reviewers questioned the validity of the finding after learning the same eight volunteers had been measured for four separate papers.

  Science

• The court examined the validity of the will only after two witnesses admitted they had signed it in different rooms.

  Law

• A logic student learns that validity depends on the shape of an argument, not on whether its premises happen to be true.

  Philosophy

• A questionnaire's validity is questioned when scores rise simply because the test-taker wants to look good.

  Psychology

• The validity of the forecast collapsed once it emerged that the model had been fitted on a single boom year.

  Economics

• Doctors questioned the validity of the trial after learning the placebo group had been ten years older on average.

  Medicine

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
• Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)

Each source is a published word list that contains validity. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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