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信度(Reliability) What use would an elastic tape measure be? Not much, because it would produce different results depending on how much it was stretched, i.e. it would be unreliable. Reliability is concerned with the extent to which a test instrument, whether it is concerned with measuring physical, biological or psychosocial phenomena, is able to produce the same data when measured at different times, or by different users; assuming of course that the phenomena being measured has not actually changed! Reliability may be characterized as either internal or external. External reliability is proba