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interrater reliability

the extent to which independent evaluators produce similar ratings in judging the same abilities or characteristics in the same target person or object. It often is expressed as a correlation coefficient. If consistency is high, a researcher can be confident that similarly trained individuals would likely produce similar scores on targets of the same kind. If consistency is low, there is little confidence that the obtained scores could be reproduced with a different set of raters. Also called intercoder reliability; interjudge reliability; interobserver reliability; interscorer reliability.

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