This is a good point, but is it true for the other metrics? It can get confusing when an atheist who does not happen to personally studied evolution much but still believes in it because the scientists say the evidence is good and he trust they don’t lie, so he is taking it more on an authority basis, and a creationist, who is doing the completely opposite based on the basis of religious authority, so they may both think the other person is anti-authoritarian :) Because obviously the only the authorities I trust are real authorities. To construct a test for every possible authority people may trust, well, does not sound easy.
The other option is of course construct very abstract and generic tests which may have their own failure modes. Not everybody will understand questions like “if an authority figure tells you to...”—some people like something more specific, and that is culture-dependent.
Well, generally I think “abstract and generic” is the obvious way to go, and I think is usually the done thing—I think the very US-specific tests on yourmorals are from studies that were originally only done in the US and are as abstract and generic as they needed to be in that context. The possibility that tending not to understand abstract, generic questions is a culture-dependent trait seems like a really tricky problem, although in some contexts you might just compromise with e.g. “you pastor, or if you are not religious then someone you trust similarly, tells you...”
This is a good point, but is it true for the other metrics? It can get confusing when an atheist who does not happen to personally studied evolution much but still believes in it because the scientists say the evidence is good and he trust they don’t lie, so he is taking it more on an authority basis, and a creationist, who is doing the completely opposite based on the basis of religious authority, so they may both think the other person is anti-authoritarian :) Because obviously the only the authorities I trust are real authorities. To construct a test for every possible authority people may trust, well, does not sound easy.
The other option is of course construct very abstract and generic tests which may have their own failure modes. Not everybody will understand questions like “if an authority figure tells you to...”—some people like something more specific, and that is culture-dependent.
Well, generally I think “abstract and generic” is the obvious way to go, and I think is usually the done thing—I think the very US-specific tests on yourmorals are from studies that were originally only done in the US and are as abstract and generic as they needed to be in that context. The possibility that tending not to understand abstract, generic questions is a culture-dependent trait seems like a really tricky problem, although in some contexts you might just compromise with e.g. “you pastor, or if you are not religious then someone you trust similarly, tells you...”