Fitzgerald, Pasewark, and Noah compared institutionalized delinquents with non-delinquent school children on a measure of interpersonal trust. Failure to find differences led them to the conclusion that their findings cast doubt on the validity of the trust measure. These comments constitute a critique of the logic of their inference.
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