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S1E12: Measurement (Non)Invariance -- Can We Ever Fail to Not Incorrectly Reject It?

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Is There a Latent Continuum?

The notion of a latent variable as this continuum is a slippery one for a lot of people, a whether it's depression or anxiety. We can't pop open people's heads and see, oh, look how much depression, or look how much anxiety. So we have to use observable manifestations in the form of symptoms that we measure medically,. And so if they're not the same oss groups, it would make sense to say at they're variant. But that's not what we say, right? No, we say they're not.

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