No coherent left-wing authoritarian ideology emerged from measured student responses

Evidence

Responses to the fifteen items showed little Les Miz sentiment, averaging 4.02 on the 1-9 scale. But they also showed almost no internal consistency, their mean intercorrelation being only .07. The items I had tried did not uncover much of a “‘system of ideas.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2883

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxist political answers exempted respondents from being classed authoritarian — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 711; Chicago economics converted socialist students into market advocates despite no explicit proselytizing — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 117