Floor / ceiling effect

Measurement failure when a test cannot discriminate meaningfully among people clustered near its lower or upper limits.

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Evidence & provenance

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Further reading

• PubMed search for “Floor / ceiling effect”
• Google Scholar search for “Floor / ceiling effect”
• When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.

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