A Measure of Empirical Validity

A Research Program for a State Mental Hospital (Hollidaysburg) in Pennsylvania: Critical Review of the Pertinent Literature

“…A closely associated kind of research is that which has to do with ascertaining and measuring empirically valid factors and meanings. Various phases of empirical validity have been covered by Znaniecki (33), Horst (34), Abel (35), Sells (36), and Hawkins (37). A scientific specification of empirical validity requires exploration, feedback, focused investigation, further feedback, and eventual structuring of a repetitive situation.…”