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“Content” Still Belongs With “Validity”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Richard F. Tonowski*
Affiliation:
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and University of Maryland University College
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E-mail: richard.tonowski@eeoc.gov, Address: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street NE, Room 5NW16H, Washington, DC 20507-0001

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Footnotes

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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and University of Maryland University College, Graduate School of Management and Technology

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of any agency of the U.S. government.

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