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VALIDATION: testing the conclusions from one piece of research against
data from independent other sources.
VALUES: broad tendencies to prefer certain states of affairs over others,
largely unconscious. To be distinguished from practices. See also corporate
values, in which the word values means something entirely different.
XENOPHILIA: the feeling that persons and things from abroad must be
superior.
XENOPHOBIA: the feeling that foreign persons or things are dangerous.
