Professor Lopez Has Been Working Hard to Develop a New

Multiple Choice

Professor Lopez has been working hard to develop a new, 5-item measure of emotional intelligence that will be much easier to administer than an older, well-established measure that has 50-items. Unfortunately, every time he compares his participants' scores on his new measure to their scores on the well-established measure, he finds that the scores are completely unrelated. What should Professor Lopez conclude from these results?

A) His 5-item measure is low on construct validity
B) His 5-item measure is high on construct validity
C) His 5-item measure is low on external validity
D) He has just developed a valid measure of emotional intelligence