From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 14:41:57 MDT
Ziana Astralos wrote:
>
> --- James Ganong <JGanong@webtv.net> wrote:
> > Since that particular F-word gets bandied about here
> > on occasion, with much furor over to whom it
> > applies, I present a "rational" means of settling
> > the argument & saving future bandwidth:
> > http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
>
> LOL!! 2.2 -- I'm a "liberal airhead", it says! ;)
3.0666
"Disciplined but tolerant, a true American"
That being said, which ought to dispel some of the negative things
people are saying about me, I will also add this that is on the bottom
of the page the test is on:
> Well, there you have it. For more information, consult T. W. Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper & Brothers,
> 1950). It should be noted here that that the authors concluded that it had "still to be demonstrated" if the F-scale actually did, in fact,
> measure fascist receptivity at a personality level. They were sure it measured something --- but not exactly sure what. T. W. Adorno
> returned to the University of Frankfurt, where he amused himself as a principal figure in the Frankfurt school of "critical theory", producing
> a Freudian-Marxist melange of pseudo-scientific speculative foolishness that is now, thank God, thoroughly discredited.
What a reputation to bolster the validity of the test, eh?
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