A small research literature can be an advantage for a psychological measure

Evidence

If this literature review seemed long and tedious, it could have been much worse. For a test published fifteen years ago, the RWA Scale has a relatively small literature, which has undoubtedly been to its advantage. Nearly all of the people who have used the measure thus far have been, first and foremost, interested in studying authoritarianism, and they have proceeded with some background knowledge and Doesn’t everyone? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3941