Agreement on one attitude scale does not prove a shared unconscious cause
Evidence
The present approach uses none of these. So while it turns out that High RWAs do tend to be anti-Semitic, that does not mean they are prejudiced because they unconsciously hate their fathers. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 615
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the Milgrom point about correlation between observables vs. underlying mechanism; also echoes the general logic that shared surface behaviors need not share deep causes.