The ARF Copy Research Validity Project
Russell I. Haley andAllan L. Baldinger
The ARF Copy Research Validity Project, which was completed in 1990, had its roots in a speech made by Ted Dunn at the ARF Annual Conference in 1977. Addressing the issue of the validity of copy testing he hypothesized that the answer existed in the archives of copy-testing experience but that, because it took so long to accumulate large enough data bases to permit generalizations and because each copy researcher saw only a small piece of the total, we might never learn the 'truth.' He called...