AO3

• weakness is that because the measurment of it relies on self-report data it may be classed as invalid due to social desirability bias and greenstein said that the f-scale is a "comedy of methodology errors"
• a weakness is that the explaination cannot be generalised to obedience in different socials groups and societies for example in pre-war Germany millions of individuals displayed obediant behaviour and anti-semetic behaviour
• another weakness is the comparison to situational factors as situations clearly play a role in obedience. Milgrims experiment has showed that obedience is effect by situation compared to Adorno's and use of F-scale, milgrims results on the situational variables are more reliable ad valid