Assuming that a battery of all possible tests of a domain of performance contains an unlimited number of tests, each of which is related to an unlimited number of other tests in the battery which measure exactly the same thing but differ by having perfect to no reliability, a proof is given that the communality of a test in such a battery is its reliability coefficient.
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