Royal Kenneth
North Carolina State University, Clinical Sciences, 1060 William Moore Dr., Raleigh, NC 27607, USA.
Am J Surg. 2016 Nov;212(5):1026-1027. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.02.018. Epub 2016 May 10.
The American Journal of Surgery (AJS) is a long-standing leader among surgery publications and has published high-quality research dating back to 1926. To preserve AJS's reputation, it is necessary to identify issues that may affect the journal, and subsequently the broader field of surgery, in a negative way, and attempt to resolve those issues. To that end, I would like to address the issue of citing "face validity" as a type of validity evidence. In a review of AJS articles since 2006, 30 articles have consisted of researchers citing face validity as part of their validity evidence. This is problematic because validity theorists (scholars who dedicate their careers to studying validity and what constitutes acceptable types of validity evidence) have universally agreed there is no such thing as "face validity". Thus, the purpose of this article is to encourage surgeons to study recent, and authoritative, works on validity theory, so they can better articulate the trustworthiness of their research findings and be more informed consumers of research.
《美国外科杂志》（AJS）在外科领域的出版物中一直处于领先地位，自1926年以来就发表高质量的研究。为维护AJS的声誉，有必要识别可能以负面方式影响该期刊以及随后更广泛的外科领域的问题，并尝试解决这些问题。为此，我想讨论将“表面效度”作为一种效度证据进行引用的问题。在对2006年以来AJS文章的回顾中，有30篇文章的研究人员将表面效度作为其效度证据的一部分。这是有问题的，因为效度理论家（那些毕生致力于研究效度以及什么构成可接受的效度证据类型的学者）普遍认为不存在“表面效度”这种东西。因此，本文的目的是鼓励外科医生研读近期的权威效度理论著作，以便他们能更好地阐明其研究结果的可信度，并成为更明智的研究成果消费者。
