What personnel psychologists have traditionally implied by the term construct validity is
tied to Inferences 6 and 7.That is, if it can be shown that a test (e.g., of reading comprehension)
measures a specific construct (Inference 6), such as reading comprehension, that has been
determined to be critical for job performance (Inference 7), then inferences about job
performance from test scores (Inference 9) are, by logical implication, justified. Constructs are
simply labels for behavioral regularities that underlie behavior sampled by the predictor, and, in
the performance domain, by the criterion.