College students and parents show no measurable left-wing authoritarianism

Evidence

The item mean continued low (3.30), and only 12 students scored over 5.00 … Thus we have nearly 1,200 people, and not a single high-scoring left-wing authoritarian in the bunch. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2949

Categorization

• XREF: Directly speaks to the vault’s Cold War-era claim that left-wing authoritarianism exists in mirror image of right-wing; data contradict the symmetry thesis.