Research investigating the agreement between parallel forms or similar measures with special groups usually fails to test the appropriate hypothesis regarding the measures. Investigators usually test the hypothesis that the measures are uncorrelated, but they fail to judge whether the measures are so highly correlated that they may be thought of as identical. A method is proposed for quantitatively determining whether two measures are equivalent when small samples are employed.
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