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On validity

What is validity? J. P. Gee says in his book that validity is never "once and for all."

Although he refers this to the validity of "qualitative research," I agree to this view rather in the point that it would be quintessential in an entire scientific methodology. Science is an enterprise of human society. People need to assent to a proposal to collaborate in their own community or society. If so, academism is by no means an exception of this, whether quantitatively (number) or qualitatively (language). All forms of validity count on a collective, variable, and contextual approbation. This is why science is controversial. But this is how it proceeds anyway. Whatever validity may be, it is social.    ao

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