The F scale measured attitudes, not personality, and conflated the two

Evidence

Another weakness of the F scale attracted much less attention at the time. Its items did not pertain to behavior as personality measures typically do, but to social attitudes and ideological beliefs. Adorno et al. (1950) seem to have assumed that these reflected an underlying personality dimension, but this was never empirically demonstrated. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2442

Categorization

• QUESTION: Suggests a follow-up question worth chasing: did later RWA/social dominance research ever close this gap between measured attitudes and demonstrated personality structure?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2442
• XREF: connects to: The F-scale measured how deeply ethnocentric attitudes were rooted in personality structure. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1769; The F Scale partly measured mere yielding, not authoritarian content — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 584