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Babies, Bathwater, and Validity: Content Validity Is Useful in the Validation Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

James A. Tan
James A. Tan*
Affiliation:
St Cloud State University
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E-mail: jatan@stcloudstate.edu, Address: Department of Management, G. R. Herberger College of Business, St Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN 56301–4498
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 514 - 516
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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