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Fairness vs Validity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fairness and validity

is that fairness is the property of being fair or equitable while validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

fairness

English

Noun

(wikipedia fairness)
  • The property of being fair or equitable.
    • In fairness , I should have asked before I borrowed your car.
  • The property of being fair or beautiful.

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    validity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia validity)
  • The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
  • Having legal force.
  • A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).