The Frankfurt School project reframed the study from extent to nature of worker anti-Semitism

Evidence

Against the expectations of the committee which had commissioned the study, its subject, as the introduction emphasized, was `the nature, not the extent of antisemitism among the masses of American workers’. If the results were taken as representative, however, they confirmed what had prompted the Jewish Labor Committee to undertake the research: anti-Semitism was widely disseminated among workers, and a further increase in it was to be expected. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1558

Categorization

• XREF: This methodological choice — measuring nature over extent — echoes the Institute’s later Authoritarian Personality work and its insistence on qualitative depth.