RWA Scale findings rank among the strongest and most replicated results in behavioral science

Evidence

At the beginning of this book I observed that we often swap a lot of stereotypes when discussing liberals and conservatives. I promised to let the scientific method do the talking, and I hope you agree that the evidence presented in this book cannot be dismissed as “just opinions.” Exhibit 12.1 lists fifty noteworthy results of the experiments I conducted, all based on completely objective scoring, not “dream interpretations.” The studies turned out the way they did because that is apparently the way things are. Furthermore, in nearly all these cases the RWA relationships proved quite substantial, sometimes ranking among the strongest findings we have ever uncovered in the behavioral sciences. Moreover, RWA Scale findings have a very good record of replication by other researchers, just as some of my findings are replications of others’ discoveries. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3769

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the replication crisis literature and debates over effect-size standards in social psychology.