This paper applies some distinctions of the philosophy of science to the
problem of data quality in cross-cultural studies. It outlines the data
quality problem in such studies, and reviews a path analytic partial solu
tion and the logic of the usual cross-cultural control procedures. And it
presents some results of eross-cultural data quality control.
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