The researchers assumed workers could not name what shaped their own factory attitudes.

Evidence

By contrast, the effect of single factors on attitudes to the factory and on the associated atmosphere in the workplace which was being analysed was assessed indirectly, since those being questioned were not considered capable of directly specifying the decisive factors in their relation to the factory on the basis of their own insights. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 508

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the indirect-measurement design underpinning how ‘atmosphere in the workplace’ was operationalized.
• XREF: connects to: The Institute treated workers as unable to articulate their own decisive factory attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2068; Accusations of workers’ illusions presuppose workers can have no autonomous class conception — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 514
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute treated workers as unable to articulate their own decisive factory attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2068; Accusations of workers’ illusions presuppose workers can have no autonomous class conception — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 514

Broader Connections

• The Institute treated workers as unable to articulate their own decisive factory attitudes #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2068