correctness vs validity

correctness

noun
  • conformity to the truth or to fact 

  • freedom from error 

  • The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification. 

  • conformity to recognized standards 

validity

noun
  • The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. 

  • The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled. 

  • State of having legal force. 

  • A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability). 

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