A Researcher Designed a New Questionnaire to Measure Political Conservatism

Multiple Choice

A researcher designed a new questionnaire to measure political conservatism.To test out his new instrument,he asks people leaving their polling place on election day to report their degree of political conservatism on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) and then complete his questionnaire.Results show that people who identified themselves as political conservatives also had the highest scores on his questionnaire.This is an indication of the ________ of the new instrument.

A) criterion validity
B) content validity
C) face validity
D) predictive validity