Adorno drafted up to a hundred questionnaire items by translating texts into F-scale questions

Evidence

In the middle of December he received the bundle of papers with the title F-scale' from Adorno, with documents from Berkeley on the new questionnaire. This was all initial material for the questionnaire. The questions suggested were partly still to be reformulated and put in a form which was comprehensible and psychologically suitable for those being questioned. Adorno himself had worked out eighty to a hundred questions, a number of which he had distilled out of the “Elements of Anti-Semitism” by a kind of translation process’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1577

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the F-scale’s origins as a translation of the ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’ analysis into survey items.
• XREF: connects to: The F Scale items derive from fascist writings and clinical interview data — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 469; Adorno sought to repurpose empirical social research for critical theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1927

Broader Connections

• The F Scale items derive from fascist writings and clinical interview data #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 469
• Adorno sought to repurpose empirical social research for critical theory. #exemplifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1927