The F-scale paired overt conservative answers against indirect destructive answers
Evidence
I have asked Mrs B. [Else Frenkel-Brunswik] to separate all the questions into
irrational' andrationalized’ categories and to arrange them in pairs where possible. Of course, the pairs would not appear consecutively in the questionnaire. 259 Adorno insisted that there should be a distinction betweenconservative' andpseudo-conservative’, as against the Berkeley people, who, according to him, tended simply to identify anti-Semites with conservatives`especially Levinson, who has the black and white ideas of a progressive’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 398
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: ‘The Questionnaire That Measured Two People at Once’ — polling methods that catch the contradiction between a respondent’s stated politics and their fantasy life.
- XREF: Connects to the Adorno-authored ‘The Authoritarian Personality’ and to the earlier Frankfurt institute worker studies the reader has already annotated. — connects to: Paired comparison against anchors reduces bias in absolute judgments — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 923; The F-scale’s items registered strong rejection as authoritarianism even on partly true statements — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1770; Comparison rating tests use two-sided scales for signal processing effects
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Paired comparison against anchors reduces bias in absolute judgments — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 923; The F-scale’s items registered strong rejection as authoritarianism even on partly true statements — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1770; Comparison rating tests use two-sided scales for signal processing effects