The reliability and true variance of a socially valid measure of creativity was assessed by asking three judges to rate the creativity of 29 adolescents. Interitem reliability was .93; interrater reliability was .48; and true score variance, estimated from the interitem and interrater reliability coefficients, was .65.
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