The theoretical formula, nr uwhereby one can estimate the "reliability correlation" (r nn ) of n against n applications of the same or equivalent unitary tests from the reliability correlation (r n ) obtained from the application of a single pair of unit tests was derived independently by C. Spearman and W. Brown, and was published simultaneously by them in the same number of the
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