Usually means: Appears effective at first glance.
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  1. face validity: Merriam-Webster
  2. face validity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. face validity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. face validity: Wiktionary
  5. Face Validity, Face validity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. face validity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. face validity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. face validity: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (face validity)

noun:  A property of a hypothesis by which its appearance suggests to an observer that the hypothesis will be determined true if tested.
noun:  A property of a test by which its appearance suggests to an observer that it will measure that which it has been designed to measure.

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