The group experiment’s design conflated group-level objective spirit with individual attitudes.

Evidence

Both the research and the analysis of it were therefore marred by a persistent lack of clarity. Although the principal purpose was to identify the objective spirit through group discussions, the attitudes of individual speakers formed the basis for both the quantitative and the qualitative analyses. These attitudes were considered to be not aspects of the group concerned but elements of the totality made up by the participants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 464

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The German group study targeted objective spirit rather than individual subjective opinion — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1881; The group-discussion project conflated group spirit with individual attitudes without resolving the contradiction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1884; Individual attitudes and identities are produced by social groups, not held independently of them — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 899
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The German group study targeted objective spirit rather than individual subjective opinion — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1881; The group-discussion project conflated group spirit with individual attitudes without resolving the contradiction. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1884; Individual attitudes and identities are produced by social groups, not held independently of them — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 899

Broader Connections

• The group-discussion project conflated group spirit with individual attitudes without resolving the contradiction. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1884
• Individual attitudes and identities are produced by social groups, not held independently of them #complicates (0.74) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 899