According to the traditional definition, the fairness of a test for different groups of people is most closely related to differences in
A) arithmetic means.
B) correlation coefficients.
C) indexes of skewness and kurtosis.
D) standard deviations.

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The fairness of a test for different groups of people is most closely related to differences in correlation coefficients because these coefficients measure the strength and direction of a linear relationship between test scores and criterion measures (e.g., performance, ability) across different groups, indicating whether the test predicts outcomes equally well for all groups.

According to the Traditional Definition, the Fairness of a Test