Authoritarianism is the worldview of the uneducated in Western industrial societies

Evidence

In summary, SES, intelligence, and education are all negatively related to F scores and the relationships are stronger than the Berkeley authors had realized. Of the various negative correlates it seems to be education that is strongest. Kornhauser, Sheppard and Mayer (1956) found that among men who were all auto workers, those with an eighth grade education or less were more authoritarian than those with a greater amount of education. Cohn and Carsch (1954) showed that among workers in a German cosmetics factory, those who had attended Hochschule had lower F scores than those with less education. Authoritarianism may be the world-view of the uneducated in western industrial societies. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the education-polarization axis in liberal democratic politics literature, and to the classic SES-attitude correlation work. — connects to: Technologically educated masses paradoxically exhibit readiness to accept despotism