High F-scale scores without overt ethnocentrism were considered anomalous exceptions.

Evidence

Given emotionally determined anti-democratic trends in the person, we should expect that in general they would be evoked by the A-S and E items, which were designed for just this purpose, as well as by the F scale and other indirect methods. The person who was high on F but not on A-S or E would be the exception, whose inhibitions upon the expression of prejudice against minorities would require special explanation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1768

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later debates about latent versus manifest authoritarianism and the ‘prejudiced but not ethnocentric’ profile. — connects to: The F-scale was never independently validated without accompanying ethnocentrism items — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1767; F Scale scores strongly tracked anti-Semitism and ethnocentrism but less so political conservatism; Exceptional individual Black achievers are absorbed as exceptions rather than refuting racist doctrine — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 250 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• F Scale scores strongly tracked anti-Semitism and ethnocentrism but less so political conservatism #qualifies (0.85)
• Exceptional individual Black achievers are absorbed as exceptions rather than refuting racist doctrine #exemplifies (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 250
• Prejudice measures index ideologies, not psychopathology #corroborates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 153