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I assume you are asking this because you may be working with something to do with a research project, a term paper or some sort of research proposal. Validity is when you are referring to whether or not the source of the information is actually one that can give you insight into your question or whatever you are looking for. For instance, if you were doing a research project about frogs then a book about the history of automobiles would not be relevant at all, in fact, it would be not valid. you have to consider if your experiment or method would be one in which you can obtain good data that is relevant. Reliability on the other hand is when the source can be consistently trusted to give the same results. For instance a science experiment would be considered reliable if it would give consistent results every time it was reproduced. So if come up with an experiment that sometimes gives you one result, then other times another and maybe even other times even another result then your experiment is not reliable.

Remember validity and reliability can however hold slightly different meanings depending on what context you are applying them to.

Good luck:)

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Obie Ondricka

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3y ago

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