The April 2021 Morning Consult Eight Nation Survey
Into the Weeds, Deeply
Bob Altemeyer, May 2023 There are entirely too many people from the wrong places getting into the United States now.
Muslims bring a valuable new element to American society and should be welcomed.*
White people are the major victims of discrimination in the United States. The government is on everybody else’s side but theirs.
The more diverse America becomes, with different people with different religions and heritages from everywhere else in the world, the stronger it will be.*
Black Americans continue to get less than their fair share of our country’s wealth because of discrimination.*
Latin Americans are naturally lazy, promiscuous, and irresponsible. We should tear down the walls that keep people from different cultures away from us, rather than build new ones. * Two really bad things about the Jews is that they killed Jesus, and they secretly control the world’s banks and economy.
Racial minorities have had it good for years in the United States because of all the government programs that help them get ahead of white people.
It will be great if someday America has become such a mixture of different people that white persons are in a minority like everybody else.*
Instead of complaining and protesting all the time, African-Americans should be grateful for how good they have it here compared to where they came from.
Religions like Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism are just as true as Christianity, and produce as much good behavior.*
Every person we let into the country as a “refugee” means another American won’t be able to find a job, or another foreigner will go on welfare here.
Overall the white race has mainly brought exploitation and suffering to the other peoples of the world.* America should stop giving foreign aid to backward countries. They made their mess by themselves, so let them clean it up.
Black people are just naturally more violent than white people.
Christianity has very unjustly persecuted the Jews over the centuries.*
Most minorities on welfare would rather work, but they can’t get jobs that pay a living wage.*
There’s no way a religion like Islam that produces so many terrorists is as good a religion as Christianity is.
Latin-Americans are as hard-working, law-abiding, and responsible as any other group of Americans.*
Certain races of people clearly do NOT have the natural intelligence and “get up and go” of the white race.
Americans are NOT exceptionally noble compared to the rest of the world. “American Exceptionalism” is just another ugly “master race” theory.*
The immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa who have come to America have mainly brought disease, ignorance, and violence with them.
It is good to live in a country where there are so many minority groups present, such as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians.*
Indicates a con-trait statement, for which the scoring key is reversed. God has given humanity a complete, unfailing guide to happiness and salvation, which must be totally followed.
No single book of religious teachings contains all the intrinsic, fundamental truths about life.*
The basic cause of evil in this world is Satan, who is still constantly and ferociously fighting against God.
It is more important to be a good person than to believe in God and the right religion.*
There is a particular set of religious teachings in this world that are so true, you can’t go any “deeper” because they are the basic, bedrock message that God has given humanity.
When you get right down to it, there are basically only two kinds of people in the world: the Righteous, who will be rewarded by God, and the rest, who will not.
Scriptures may contain general truths, but they should NOT be considered completely, literally true from beginning to end.*
To lead the best, most meaningful life, one must belong to the one, fundamentally true religion.
“Satan” is just the name people give to their own bad impulses. There really is no such thing as a diabolical “Prince of Darkness” who tempts us.* Whenever science and sacred scripture conflict, science is probably right.*
The fundamentals of God’s religion should never be tampered with, or compromised with others’ beliefs.
All of the religions in the world have flaws and wrong teachings. There is no perfectly true, right religion.* Indicates a con-trait statement, for which the scoring key is reversed. Scale USA
Canada U.K.
Australia Italy
Spain
Germany
France
RWA
.299/.896*
317/904
269/882
291/842
211/843
206/840
181/818
126/747
SD/Dom
.237/717
300/775
280/758
274/753
278/755
192/660
151/584
158/606
SD/Anti
.356/813
432/853
361/814
388/830
375/821
339/800
249/722
272/746
Prejudice
.303/.913
396/940
361/932
350/929
352/929
283/905
357/931
250/890
Rel. Fun.
.446/.906
524/930
475/916
500/923
335/858
332/850
367/874
292/831 Country RWA Dominance
Antiequality
Prejudice-18
Rel. Fundamen. USA 94.3 31.3 32.1 77.1 56.8 CANADA 84.0 29.4 29.0 66.9 45.6
UNITED KINGDOM 87.1 32.6 32.1 75.5 45.0 AUSTRALIA 85.9 31.5 30.5 72.8 45.6 ITALY 84.8 31.2 28.8 75.4 49.8 SPAIN 85.2 33.7 30.6 74.6 46.7 GERMANY 83.0 34.5 33.4 76.7 45.8 FRANCE 89.2 34.7 32.5 79.9 48.8 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance
SDO-Antiequality
Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .461 .442 .709 .751
SDO-Dominance – .681 .614 .329
SDO-Antiequality – .645 .256
Prejudice (1 .493 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .550 .454 .673 .711 SDO-Dominance – .746 .658 .371
SDO-Antiequality – .633 .331
Prejudice (1 – .478 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .590 .517 .708 .620
SDO-Dominance – .743 .605 .456
SDO-Antiequality – .595 .340
Prejudice (1 – .431
Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality
Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .509 .492 .667 .670
SDO-Dominance – .728 .588 .454
SDO-Antieq1uality – .626 .408
Prejudice (1 – .471 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance
SDO-Antiequality Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .516 .489 .651 .683
SDO-Dominance – .751 .611 .381
SDO-Antiequality – .600 .384
Prejudice (1 – .454 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen
RWA – .537 .518 .656 .660 SDO-Dominance – .690 .609 .470
SDO-Antiequality – .644 .496
Prejudice (1 – .598 Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .465 .463 .545 .636
SDO-Dominance – .632 .400 .398
SDO-Antiequality – .478 .418 Prejudice (1 – .379
Scale RWA
SDO-Dominance SDO-Antiequality
Prejudice (1
Religious Fundamen.
RWA – .443 .415 .579 .481
SDO-Dominance – .699 .518 .355
SDO-Antieq1uality – .507 .414
Prejudice (1 – .310 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-178 94.3 773 .299 .896
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-65 31.3 110 .237 . 717
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-70 32.1 145 .356 813
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-203 102.6 1108 .303 .913
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-108 56.8 478 .446 .906 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-170 84.0 656 .317 .904
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-59 29.4 101 .300 . 775
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-72 29.0 125 .432 .853
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-208 89.2 1130 .396 .940
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-108 45.6 449 .524 .930 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-156 87.1 522 .269 .882
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-71 32.6 91 .280 . 758
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-64 32.1 105 .361 .814
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-216 100.3 1063 .361 .932
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-107 45.0 368 .475 .916 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range �� Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-176 85.9 607 .291 .892
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-68 31.5 98 .274 . 753
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-64 30.5 116 .388 .830
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-191 96.2 1076 .350 .929
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-108 45.6 424 .500 .923 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-173 84.8 523 .211 .843
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-67 31.2 108 .278 . 755
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-69 28.8 130 .375 .821
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-200 98.7 1111 .352 .929
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-108 49.8 308 .335 .858 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-172 85.2 504 .206 .840
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-72 33.7 78 .192 . 660
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-72 30.6 119 .339 .800
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-192 98.8 888 .283 .905
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-105 46.7 298 .332 .850 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 20-172 83.0 433 .181 .818
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 8-57 34.5 63 .151 . 584
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-72 33.4 79 .249 .722
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-207 99.8 1111 .357 .931
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-107 45.8 310 .367 .874 Scale Number Items Possible Range Actual Range Mean Variance Mean Correlation Alpha Coefficient
RWA 20 20-180 23-159 89.2 356 .126 .747
SDO-DOM 8 8-72 9-67 34.7 74 .158 . 606
SDO-ANTI 8 8-72 8-69 32.5 101 .272 .746
PREJUDICE 24 24-216 24-205 105.2 825 .250 .890
RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM 12 12-108 12-104 48.8 269 .292 .831
Footnotes
[11] The energetic and careful Jake Womick at the University of North Carolina gathered American data on the (complete!) RWA and SDO scales in 2016. Unfortunately, Dr. Womick was not lucky enough to have met someone famous (as I did) who could get a major polling firm to do his survey. So he went with Amazon Turk, which collects data from people who take lots of surveys for a pittance. The respondents left something to be desired, collectively, having many more well-educated persons, many more women, and many more agnostics or atheists than a representative sample would contain. The SDO-Dominance items were presented on one page, and the Anti-equality items on another. Two different samples produced RWA alphas of .95 and .96, Dominance alphas of .94 and .94. and Anti-equality alphas of .94 and .94. RWA correlated .43-.46 with the Social Dominance scores. RWA made appreciably stronger predictions of preference for Donald Trump than the SDO scales. (See Studies 1 and 2 in Jake Womick, Tobias Rothmund, Flavio Azevedo, Laura A. King, and John T. Jost, “Group-Based Dominance and Authoritarian Aggression Predict Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,” Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2018, 1-10.)