Paul E. Meehl
American clinical psychologist and philosopher of science, co-author (with Lee J. Cronbach) of "Construct Validity in Psychological Tests" (Psychological Bulletin, 1955) — the paper coining "construct validity," hosted in full on Meehl's own University of Minnesota archive page, a primary source anyone citing the term secondhand could instead read directly.
Matters to this vault as one half of the foundational citation behind claim-cronbach-meehl-1955-construct-validity-names-general-substitution-pattern, the general-measurement-theory ancestor this vault's recurring "cheap scalar substituted for a harder construct" pattern traces back to — decades before either Garfield/Seglen's bibliometrics warning or Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus's cosine-similarity warning.
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