Workers’ study coded answers as personality evidence before reading each questionnaire whole
Evidence
Then, disregarding any connections between individual questionnaires, the answers to questions in the areas of political views, general world-view, cultural and aesthetic attitudes, attitudes to women and children, and to one’s fellow human beings and oneself, were classified descriptivelyand also partly interpretatively, even at this stage. … Finally, each questionnaire was taken as a whole. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 192
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the two-stage interpretive procedure — descriptive category coding of individual answers, then reintegration of the whole questionnaire — that the Group Experiment later formalized.
- XREF: connects to: The Institute smuggled personality probes into innocent questionnaire items to reach hidden attitudes; Fromm saw the workers questionnaire as a methodological proving ground — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 698; Personality traits can be measured through informant reports rather than self-reports alone — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 95 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute smuggled personality probes into innocent questionnaire items to reach hidden attitudes; Fromm saw the workers questionnaire as a methodological proving ground — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 698; Personality traits can be measured through informant reports rather than self-reports alone — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 95 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Using self-interested interviewers undercuts a study’s credibility regardless of findings
#complicates(0.74) — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 640