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• Education may determine authoritarianism and obedience

  • Research as generally found that less. educated people are consistently more authoritarian than the well educated
  • Milgram also found that participants with low levels or education tended to be more obedient than those with higher levels of education
  • This suggests that instead or authoritarianism causing obedience, Iack or education could be responsible
• The F-scale has been criticised as a measurement of an authoritarian personality; one reason is due to acquiescence bias; people tend to agree to questions; the F-Scale was written in a way that agreeing to all the questions would artificially inflate their score on the authoritarianism scale leading to inaccurate measurement. Additionally, Adorno was a left-wing thinker, and some questions are argued to be biased against people with a right-wing political view.
• In Milgram's study, a significant proportion, 35%, resisted the authority figure; this can't be explained by situational factors alone, as each participant had precisely the same experience. However, Adorno's theory acknowledges that the willingness to obey an authority figure can vary from person to person, offering an explanation as to why there are extreme variations in Milgram's participants