TY - JOUR AU - Arias González, Victor Benito AU - Ponce, Fernando P. AU - Bruggeman, Martin AU - Flores Robaina, Noelia Emma AU - Jenaro Río, Cristina PY - 2020 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/154083 AB - [EN]Background. In three recent studies, Maul demonstrated that sets of nonsense items can acquire excellent psychometric properties. Our aim was to find out why responses to nonsense items acquire a well-defined structure and high internal... LA - eng PB - PeerJ KW - Survey research KW - Validity KW - Validation KW - Measurement KW - Gavagai KW - Factor analysis TI - A valid and reliable measure of nothing: disentangling the “Gavagai effect” in survey data DO - 10.7717/peerj.10209 T2 - PeerJ VL - 8 M2 - 1 ER -