The impact of scale length on reliabilit
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Richard G. Niemi; Edward G. Carmines; John P. McIver
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Article
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1986
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The conventional wisdom in political science seems to hold that simply increasing the length of scales automatically increases their reliability and that validity supposedly increases merely as the result of increased reliability. This paper shows analytically and by way of example that -despite the