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An analysis of the evidences of Brazilian validities about the PMK

Considering the proposal and amount of measures concerning with the PMK, the analysis of the studies of evidence of validity supplied by the Manual were placed under investigation. In fact, the interest is to search for foundations of the interpretability of the results of a test with a pretentiousness of this magnitude. As a result, the factorial analyzes do not support the proposed structure for the interpretation of the different measures of the PMK. Besides, the presented studies with criterion group were as much as incipient and do not furnish evidences of interpretability for almost none of the named six factors. The showed evidences are confusing, there are incoherencies between the concept of correlation and variance analysis and the interpretability of the test is not demonstrated by the researches.

PMK; Evidences of validity; Interpretability


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