I do have one remark. Many of the questions on the RWA seem to
identify right-wing attitudes like religious fundamentalism. Therefore
it's unsurprising that ring-wingers will score higher on it. If it
were a test of authoritarianism in general (without regard to, say,
either religious fundamentalism or Marxism) then the scores could be
different.
I went through the test, and discovered that six of the
twenty questions contain references to religion, God,
or prayer. Fourteen questions do not.
According to Altemeyer, the answers to all twenty questions
on the test are highly correllated, meaning that they are
all measuring more or less the same thing. So if the test
is measuring religious belief, that would mean that all the
questions are measuring religious belief, including the
fourteen questions which do not mention religion, God, or
prayer.
The bottom line is that that fact that a few of the questions
mention X, where X is religion, women's right, homosexuality,
or whatever, doesn't mean that the test results depend on X.
You can certainly argue about what it is that the test measures,
but whatever it is, it is something that is measured by all of
the questions, not just by some of them.
Kenneth Almquist
According to Altemeyer, the answers to all twenty questions
on the test are highly correllated, meaning that they are
all measuring more or less the same thing. So if the test
is measuring religious belief, that would mean that all the
questions are measuring religious belief, including the
fourteen questions which do not mention religion, God, or
prayer.
> personality that other tests do not. *That* is the significance of the RWA
> scale - its uniqueness.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Scott Nelson
>