Conceptecological validity / ecological validity
Ecological Validity
A concept originating in psychological experimental design referring to the degree to which a measurement instrument or experimental environment corresponds to real-world conditions. In AI evaluation, it requires that benchmarks accurately predict model behavior in actual deployment environments.
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Oct 12
As an AI evaluation tool, games have inherent boundaries in ecological validity: board and card games have closed rules and clear goals, whereas high-stakes applications (such as medical diagnosis and legal consultation) involve ambiguous goals, ethical trade-offs, and irreversible consequences, and the two are fundamentally different.
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