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Significance vs Validity - What's the difference?

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Significance is a related term of validity.


As nouns the difference between significance and validity

is that significance is the extent to which something matters; importance while validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

significance

English

(wikipedia significance)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The extent to which something matters; importance
    • As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
  • *
    • Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
  • Meaning.
    • the significance of a gesture

    See also

    * Significance level (statistics). * Statistical significance.

    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).