Reliability – the ability of a measure to produce consistent results Internal consistency – refers to the extent to which items in a questionnaire are measuring the same things.
The automakers have argued, though, that rollover tests do not produce consistent results.
More complex approaches have failed to produce consistent results.
The only published research has involved periods of a few months, which is too short a time to produce consistent results.
It is time that our rules for extraditing suspects to the US are fully investigated to ensure that they produce consistent results for all suspects.
Knife dermatomes, which are handheld instruments, require a high degree of technical skill and may not produce consistent results.
9 We note that scientists typically distinguish between "validity" (does the principle support what it purports to show?) and "reliability" (does application of the principle produce consistent results?).
The models are shown to produce consistent results with experimentally measured ones and compared with previous researches' models.
Most mass-produced versions are made by killing off all the yeast and bacteria that live on them, then introducing pure, specially chosen cultures that will produce consistent results.
For despite many successes in the lab -- including promising animal tests -- the vaccines have yet to produce consistent results in humans during clinical trials.
Further, studies investigating the relationship between sleep quality or the amount of slow wave and next-day performance failed to produce consistent results (for references, see Walsh and Ustun, 1999; Edinger et al, 2000).
