Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. You are using a(n) ________ method of test construction.
A) factor analytic
B) rational
C) projective
D) empirical

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This approach is empirical because it relies on data from two distinct groups (depressed and nondepressed) to determine which items best differentiate between the groups, rather than on theory or intuition.

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