RWA research validates only part of the Berkeley model.

Evidence

When people say the research with the RWA Scale confirms the Berkeley theory, I wonder when it has been found that High RWAs are “cynical,” or “superstitious,” or have “exaggerated concerns with sexual ‘goings-on’ ””? Those are all parts of the original model. (And they were not supported by F Scale research either.) So RWA Scale results can at best reinforce only part of the Berkeley model, because most of the pieces of that model are not represented on the RWA Scale. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 599

Categorization

• XREF: Moderates any vault tendency to treat ‘authoritarianism research’ and the original Adorno F-scale tradition as interchangeable; a useful qualification.
• QUESTION: The text omits the reader’s own quoted page 228 reference corrections; verify whether the RWA scale omitted cynicism/superstition/sexual concern items and what the F Scale data actually showed.