The degree to which a procedure, especially a psychological test or assessment, appears effective in terms of its stated aims.
（尤指心理测验或评估的）表面效度
there is a high reliance on face validity and relatively little systematic evaluation is carried out
Example sentencesExamples
For any particular competency model, content and face validity are essentially subjective judgements.
In preparation for the present pilot study, the authors evaluated the clinical practicability and face validity of telemedicine assessment for diabetes foot care.
Since clearly aversive substances such as lithium chloride also produce taste aversion, the taste aversion model appears to have little face validity.
Measures like reading scores seem to possess face validity, in the sense that they appear to exhibit a correspondence with what they are measuring.
The scale has face validity as a measure of psychological distress.
Definition of face validity in US English:
face validity
noun
The degree to which a procedure, especially a psychological test or assessment, appears effective in terms of its stated aims.
（尤指心理测验或评估的）表面效度
there is a high reliance on face validity and relatively little systematic evaluation is carried out
Example sentencesExamples
In preparation for the present pilot study, the authors evaluated the clinical practicability and face validity of telemedicine assessment for diabetes foot care.
The scale has face validity as a measure of psychological distress.
Measures like reading scores seem to possess face validity, in the sense that they appear to exhibit a correspondence with what they are measuring.
For any particular competency model, content and face validity are essentially subjective judgements.
Since clearly aversive substances such as lithium chloride also produce taste aversion, the taste aversion model appears to have little face validity.