In any case, the newly validated test cannot be more valid than its criterion and cannot, therefore, be used to 'back-validate' the criterion measures.
While self-reported HRQoL may be more valid in terms of subjective well-being, parent-perceived HRQoL may impact more on treatment decisions.
It shouldn't be more valid, because you're popular.
While they are more precise, and thus may be more valid than much of psychoanalytic theory, experiments perforce have a narrower scope than the grand sweep of psychoanalysis.
The sociologist Karl Mannheim, for instance, associated social classes with distinct understandings of reality without presuming one to be more valid than others.
Anderson: Regarding Wendell's line about duplicity and excessive pride: This is a conclusion drawn from her own experience, and may be more valid, in the sum of its various parts, to her than it is to me.
Somehow the data gleaned from these tests is supposed to be more valid than a teacher's own ability to observe children and understand their skills in the context of their whole development in the classroom.
There may well be more bad news to come, but a year from now it is perfectly possible that the latters' earlier positive judgement will turn out to be more valid than their present negative one.
In contrast, the relation between Mc and c in (50) appears to be more valid.
The results anticipate that the slipmeter may prove to be more valid than any traditional measurement technique.
Repeatedly seen or heard statements are typically judged to be more valid than statements one has never encountered before.
