Published scales are used far beyond their stated validation scope by researchers

Evidence

Do you think many dogmatism researchers paid any attention to that stated limitation, which was even included in the title of Troldah! and Powell’s article, once the twenty-item version was published? Or do you suspect that once a scale is published, its appearance in print becomes a kind of universal license to go hunting with it, no matter what the article says? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4264

Categorization

• XREF: Methodological-integrity critique paralleling the reader’s existing grounds on how instruments get over-deployed.