When Janine takes the personality test in the latest issue of Appeal magazine, her scores suggest that she is kind, generous, and caring. When she retakes the test later that week with several friends, her scores suggest she is self-centered, vain, and competitive. Janine's wildly different scores suggest a significant
A)test-retest reliability.
B)criterion validity.
C)amount of internal consistency.
D)lack of test-retest reliability.
E)source of cognitive dissonance.

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The wildly different scores on the same test taken at two different times indicate a lack of test-retest reliability, which means the test does not consistently produce similar results under the same conditions.

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