University of Tennessee - Opinion Scale
	Directions: The Following statements refer to opinions regarding a number of issues, about which some people agree and others disagree. Please mark each statement in the right hand margin according to your agreement or disagreement, as follows:
	+1 - slight support, agree -1 slight opposition,disagree
	+2 - moderate support, agree -2, moderate opposition, disagree
	+3 - strong support, agree -3, strong opposition, disagreement
1	Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children ought to learn?
2	No weakness or difficulty can hold us back if we have the will power.
3	Science has its place, but there are many important things that can never be completely understood by the human mind.
4	Human nature being what it is, there will always be war and conflict.
5	Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions are to be obeyed without question?
6	When a person has a problem or worry, it is best for him/her not to think about it, but keep busy with cheerful things.
7	A person who has bad manners, habits and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people .
8	Some people are born to jump from high places.
9	What the youth need most is strict discipline, rugged determination and the will to work and fight for family and country.
10	Nowadays, when so many different kinds of people move around and mix so much a person has to protect him/herself from catching an infection or a disease.	-
11	An insult to our honor should always be punished?
12	Young people sometimes have rebellious ideas, but as they grow up they ought to get over them?
13	It is best to use some pre-war authorities in Germany to keep order and prevent chaos.
14	What this country needs more than laws and political programs is a few courageous leaders in who the people can put their faith.
15	Sex crimes such as rape and attacks on children deserve more than mere imprisonment; such criminals ought to be publicly whipped or worse.
16	People can be divided into two groups: The weak and strong.	-
17	There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not feel love and gratitude and respect for his/her parents.
18	Some day it will be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.
19	Nowadays, more and more people are prying into matters that should remain personal and private.
20	Wars and social troubles may someday be ended by earthquake and floods that will destroy the entire world.
21	The wild sex life of the old Greeks and Romans was tame to some of the goings-on in this country, even in places where we least expect it.
22	Most of our social problems could be solved if we would get rid of the immoral, crooked and feeble minded.
23	If people would talk less and work more, everyone would be better off.
24	Most people don't realize how much our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places.
25	Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished.
26	The businessman and the manufacturer are more important to society than the artist and professor.	-
27	No sane normal decent person could ever think of hurting a close friend or a relative.	-
28	Familiarity breeds contempt.
29	No one ever learned anything except through suffering.	-
30	The true American way of life is disappearing so fast that force may be necessary to preserve it.
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	Scale for Quiz
	F. Scale by E. Frenkel-Burnswick
	A. A General Introduction.
	This instrument attempts to obtain a valid estimate of antidemocratic tendencies at the personality level. The variables which make up the basic content of the F scale are listed below with a brief definition in some areas.
	1. Conventionalism - rigid adherence to conventional and middle class values.
	2. Authoritarian submission - submissive uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the In-group.
	3. Authoritarian aggression - tendency to be on the lookout for and to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional values.
	4. Anti-intraception - opposition to the subjective and imaginative and the tender minded.
	5. Superstition an stereotyping.
	6. Power and "toughness"
	7. Destructiveness and cynicism.
	8. Projectivity - the disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses.
	9. Sex-exaggerated concern with sexual "goings-on"
	B. Scoring.
	1. Add ratings algebraically
	2. Add 120 to score.
	C. Distribution of F Score.
	F Scale Scores Percentiles
	162-168 1
	155-161 4
	148-154 8
	141-147 11
	134-140 18
	127-133 27
	120-126 37
	Interpretation
	In analyzing scores on this scale, lower percentile or higher raw scores would indicate strong antidemocratic tendencies. Higher percentile or low raw scores reveal strong opposition to antidemocratic tendencies.