The end of construct validity.

By Denny Borsboom, A. Cramer, Rogier A. Kievit, A. Z. Scholten, S. Franić. 2009

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Validating test score meaning and defending test score use: different aims, different methods (2016, background): “Borsboom et al., 2004; Hood, 2009). However, perhaps the most fatal flaw – with both theoretical and practical consequences – is that validity is defined with an inherent internal contradiction. Even the most recent edition of the Standards perpetuates the conflation of score meaning and test use, i”
A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires (2019, background): “This explanation suggests that latent traits are not necessary to explain how items in our questionnaire covary (Borsboom et al., 2009).”
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems (2015, background): “Third, the symptoms of mental disorders frequently violate the axiom of local independence integral to latent variable approaches (Borsboom, 2008; Borsboom et al., 2009).”
Formative Vs. Reflective Measurement Model: Guidelines for Structural Equation Modeling Research (2020, unknown): “absolute sense) independently of the measures ([21]).”