Adults show a stronger authoritarianism-ethnocentrism correlation than students

Evidence

Parents of Manitoba students showed a correlation of .45-. between their RWA scores and ethnocentrism on the earlier version. On the present test, which has the same internal cohesion and alpha among parents that it has among their first derivatives, the correlation roams around .50. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 340

I reported in Enemies of Freedom (pp. 109, 183) that responses to an earlier version of this instrument correlated .30-. with Manitoba students’ RWA scores. The version of the test shown in Exhibit 1.2, which has a mean interitem correlation of about . and an alpha of about . among such students, produces a Pearson r of about . with their level of authoritarianism. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 339

Categorization

• XREF: Higher adult correlations reinforce the relevance of authoritarianism-ethnocentrism link to real-world adult populations in the vault’s claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 340; Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 339