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Can you please help me with coming up with a description of factors that could be considered, along with the steps that one could take in order to promote and assure the reliability of an intelligence test? Within this discussion please note why these factors/steps are important. Provide references and scholarly sources.

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The solution provides examples and steps that one could take in order to promote and assure the reliability of an intelligence test.

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One of the major factors that could be considered in order to assure the reliability of an intelligence test, is whether or not an individual will obtain a statistically significant consistency in the score that the individual attains upon taking a given intelligence test more than once. This step that should be taken to ensure this form of reliability, is to ensure that the test is designed to ask the same questions ...

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