Horkheimer attacked the study’s empirical handling as biased against ordinary people’s small hopes.

Evidence

Horkheimer also vehemently criticized the dilettante, often irresponsible treatment of the empirical material' and the biased evaluation’ of it. In his view, the study’s overall approach meant that injustice was done to those, for example, who express a desire for bearable conditions and an aversion to restricting themselves to their own speciality' and thereby really offered models for the outlook of the individual in countries where nothing very positive is to be expected from political changes’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 582

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer dismissed Neumann’s working-class anti-Semitism survey as scientifically ridiculous — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379; Horkheimer defended the Institute’s unorthodox American research methods against conformity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382; The antisemitism researchers relied more on personal empirical hunches than on theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 400 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer dismissed Neumann’s working-class anti-Semitism survey as scientifically ridiculous — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379; Horkheimer defended the Institute’s unorthodox American research methods against conformity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382; The antisemitism researchers relied more on personal empirical hunches than on theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 400 (+2 more)