"F scale" test for fascism

[happydreams]

Fifty years ago, the Authoritarian Personality studies attempted to "construct an instrument that would yield an estimate of fascist receptivity at the personality level."
This online, interactive F Scale presents that instrument in its final form. Additional infomation, including an explanation of the personality variables the F Scale tries to measure, is given below after the questionnaire. So take the F Scale now --- or else!


Back in the 60's this test was given to large numbers of people and Americans were found to have strong fascist tendencies.

http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

[atommom]

1. Hooray! I'm a whining rotter!

Not that it comes as a surprise...

[Avalux]

2. I'm a liberal airhead! Woo hoo!

:hi:

[lvx35]

4. me too...2.77

good questions though, I wonder what the value of each one is...

[OneBlueSky]

6. me, too (and proud of it) . . . 2.666666666 . . . etc. . . n/t

.

[porphyrian]

3. Is it bad to be a "whining rotter?" - n/t

[Taxloss]

9. Badge of honour, I say. n/t

[lvx35]

5. The table at the bottom, of fascist tendencies, is pretty interesting.

Conventionalism: Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values. 1, 2, 3, 4
Authoritarian Submission: Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the ingroup. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Authoritarian Aggression: Tendency to be on the lookout for, and to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional values. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Anti-intraception: Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded. 3, 4, 17, 18
Superstition and Stereotypy: The belief in mystical determinants of the individual's fate; the disposition to think in rigid categories. 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22
Power and "Toughness": Preoccupation with the dominance-submission, strong-weak, leader-follower dimension; identification with power figures; overemphasis upon the conventionalized attributes of the ego; exaggerated assertion of strength and toughness. 8, 11, 12, 20, 23, 24, 25, 30
Destructiveness and Cynicism: Generalized hostility, vilification of the human. 26, 27
Projectivity: The disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses. 18, 22, 25, 28, 29
Sex: Exaggerated concern with sexual "goings-on." 13, 16, 29

[happydreams]

13. Whoah, I hadn't seen that: "Sex: Exaggerated....

concern with sexual 'goings-on'.

Explains Monicagate doesn't it.

[ThomWV]

7. Another Liberal Airhead checs in. 2.06

Not so bad.

[Taxloss]

8. 1.83333recurring, a whining rotter.

Correct, I whine and am indeed a rotter. If you'll excuse me, I'm off to complain about something.

[citizen snips]

10. 2

[sandyd921]

11. Another whining rotter

I scored 1.97.

[Zorra]

12. Lib airhead.

:toast:

[happydreams]

14. Well, now I know this test is accurate, hee,hee

All the Duers are whining rotters, etc. :evilgrin: