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367. You Might Already Be A Member | Dr. James Lindsay

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Construct Validation in Psychology

Psychologists have tried to wrestle with the idea of how you know when a concept is real. And what psychologists concluded, essentially, was that to establish something as real,. You needed a set of qualitatively different measurement techniques all of which converged on analysis of same pattern. It's because that's one of the ways we triangulate on truth, right? Is we use multiple measurement systems to to abstract out the same pattern.

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