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Validity vs Correctness - What's the difference?

validity | correctness |

As nouns the difference between validity and correctness

is that validity is the state of being valid, authentic or genuine while correctness is freedom from error.

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).

    • correctness

    English

    (wikipedia correctness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • freedom from error
  • conformity to the truth or to fact
  • conformity to recognized standards
  • (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

    • Antonyms

    * incorrectness