Authoritarian legislators disproportionately decline to participate in political surveys

Evidence

To summarize then, I do not believe that the RWA Scale means I have gotten from (roughly) a quarter of the caucus memberships would equal the means I would have gotten if everyone had responded. I suspect that High RWA Canadian legislators are less likely to answer surveys from psychologists than Lows are, other things being equal. Thus the mean in each party would probably go up if I had been blessed with a 100% response rate. But I do not think the differences between the parties would change much. If they did, the differences could well increase, not disappear (EOF, pp. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3400 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I do not see, however, how any of these could have artificially produced the result that keeps turning up in study after study. If there really is no difference in the overall authoritarianism of the people you find in the different caucus rooms in legislatures, then how come we keep getting the same split? Why do basically just the Lows in one of the rooms answer, while basically just the Highs in the other respond? Got any ideas, short of vast conspiratorial theories to deceive nosy scientists? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3397 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxist political answers exempted respondents from being classed authoritarian — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 711; About a quarter of state legislators respond to authoritarianism surveys; Higher-authoritarian legislators were less likely to respond to the survey (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Higher-authoritarian legislators were less likely to respond to the survey #corroborates (0.98)
• High-authoritarian politicians refuse psychology surveys more than lows do #corroborates (0.95) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3400
• High authoritarians are less likely to respond to surveys #corroborates (0.93) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3397
• The most authoritarian lawmakers systematically refused to answer the survey #expands (0.92) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4455