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Validity

The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.

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Credibility 76% connected

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

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Credibleness 76% connected

The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility.

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Legality 76% connected

The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Rigorous 74% connected

Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigo…

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Rigorous 74% connected

Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigo…

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Valid 74% connected

Strong; powerful; efficient.

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Valid 74% connected

Strong; powerful; efficient.

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Cogency 92% connected

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

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Rigor 92% connected

Rigidity; stiffness.

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Validness 92% connected

The quality or state of being valid.

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Analysis 84% connected

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the compo…

critical thinking vocabulary 55% interchangeable

The extent to which reasoning or measurement is sound.

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Variable adjective · 89% connection

Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variabl…

Appears with this word in Scientific reasoning, Research design.
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Hypothesis noun · 82% connection

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof…

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Bias noun · 81% connection

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

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control group noun · 81% connection

The group used as a baseline against which another group is compared.

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Correlation noun · 81% connection

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…

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randomisation noun · 81% connection

Using a random method to reduce systematic differences between groups.

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Argument noun · 80% connection

Proof; evidence.

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Assumption noun · 80% connection

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Accuracy noun · 86% connection

the quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth…

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Research methods, Pollution, Measurement, validity and reliability, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.
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Ambiguity noun · 86% connection

unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

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Analogy noun · 86% connection

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Coherence noun · 86% connection

logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

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Coherency noun · 86% connection

logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

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Corollary noun · 86% connection

(logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

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Deduction noun · 86% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Dependability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being dependable or reliable

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Research methods, Evidence and research, Measurement, validity and reliability, Critical thinking.
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Dependableness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being dependable or reliable

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Derivation noun · 86% connection

a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions

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Duplicability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being reproducible

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Research methods, Evidence and research, Measurement, validity and reliability, Critical thinking.
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Entailment noun · 86% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Evidence noun · 86% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Evidence and research, Argument and reasoning, Critical thinking.
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Grounds noun · 86% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Evidence and research, Argument and reasoning, Critical thinking.
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Illation noun · 86% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Law, Philosophy, Research methods, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.
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Implication noun · 86% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Law, Philosophy, Research methods, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.
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Inference noun · 86% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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