Only a small fraction of respondents can infer that a survey measures authoritarianism

Evidence

I have no desire to spend the rest of my life studying authoritarianism in people who know I am trying to find out how authoritarian they are. So in November 1991, I repeated a 1983 ploy (EOF, pp. 33-35) of offering extra experimental credits to students who could get the answer “through guessing, insight, etc.” Only 10 of 220 checked right-wing authoritarianism. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 703

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical defense of survey validity; undercuts the claim that RWA correlation findings are artifacts of socially desirable responding.