RWA findings do not actually validate the Berkeley authoritarian theory

Evidence

But when someone says that the RWA Scale findings confirm the Berkeley theory, or that those findings are very reminiscent of that theory, or that this model is strikingly similar to that theory, I wonder how they ever reached that conclusion. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 617

Categorization

• XREF: Altemeyer directly disputes loading RWA findings onto the older Berkeley/Adorno program — relevant to any vault claim that treats all authoritarianism research as one tradition.