The worker survey was under-analyzed partly as a response to discouraging early findings

Evidence

But the analysis of them was not carried out very intensively, not only because of the long illnesses Horkheimer and Fromm suffered, and because of a lack of experience in empirical social research, but probably also in reaction to the earliest signs of the inquiry’s results. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 474

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the fuller story of how the survey results — showing workers largely identifying with prevailing conditions — shaped the Institute’s turn away from empirical work toward philosophy.
• XREF: connects to: The workers’ inquiry findings were suppressed partly for their politically damaging implications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 475; The Institute’s worker research stalled partly out of reaction to troubling early results — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 474