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Problems with the Standard Tool for Measuring Sexism (the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory)
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https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2017/09/17/problems-with-the-standard-tool-for-measuring-sexism-the-ambivalent-sexism-inventory/

The three problems:

  1. They count unfavorable views of feminists as sexism against women. Two of the 22 questions ask not about women, but about feminists.
  2. To their credit the authors have a counterpart for men, the AMI (Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory). But they drop the term “sexism” and take a more neutral and less condemning tone towards it.
  3. They seem basically unconcerned with whether any of the beliefs they’re talking about (as sexism or positive/negative beliefs) are actually true or not.

Thoughts on my criticisms? If you've read the papers, do you have any other criticisms? (Both papers are linked there; the papers include all of the questions in both tests at the end.)

Do you think a measure of sexism should be concerned with whether any of the beliefs are actually true or not? Can something be sexist if it's true?

Is a self-reported measure of sexism useful at all?

How would you make a test to measure sexism?

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