RWA is unsurprisingly correlated strongly with conservatism and right-wing orientation in politics
This is so only because the researcher chose biased questions.. See also this
Thanks for the links. Friedman's criticism seems to be that the questions were politically biased because they chose examples such as the church for right-orientated authorities.
When the question is of the form "We should follow authority X," X just happens to be a source of authority, such as the church, more popular on the right than on the left.
Altemeyer's response is:
"When one is measuring submission to established authority in a society, one has to mention those authorities, their views, etc. in the items."
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