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Tests Don't Measure Jobs: The Meaning of Content Validation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Scott Highhouse
Scott Highhouse*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
*
E-mail: shighho@bgsu.edu, Address: Bowling Green State University, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green, OH 43403
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 493 - 495
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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