confirmability

Senate confirmability has never been a more valuable asset.

"The White House now has to screen a nominee not just for integrity and competence, but for confirmability."

Confirmability is a qualitative concept analogous to the concept of objectivity in quantitative research.

"The issue of confirmability is an important one and certainly a legitimate one," Mr. Quinn said.

An additional assessment of study dependability or confirmability through audit would have improved the trustworthiness of these data.

There are many different ways of establishing trustworthiness, including: member check, interviewer corroboration, peer debriefing, prolonged engagement, negative case analysis, auditability, confirmability, bracketing, and balance.

The response - in part, a rush by conservatives to be rid of a nominee whose "confirmability" they had come to doubt -was righteously moralistic on the part of a public spurred on by the press's dubious new trend toward intrusive inquiry.