The articles in this special section provide practical guidelines and examples for carrying out reliability and validity measurement testing, which is essential to the advancement of marketing research. A content analysis of JMR articles shows increasing concern with these issues in the past five years. A special AMA committee and a new JMR section are proposed to move the field beyond concern (flirtation) and into action (romance).
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