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Abstract
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The scores made on Forms A and B of the Hinckley scale of attitude toward the negro are not exactly comparable when given at the same sitting to a group that is strongly opposed to social intermixture with the race. The more advanced students in the groups studied are more liberal in their attitude toward the rights of the negro than the freshmen. The results of this experiment show that this group of southern students are much more liberal toward the economic, the political, and the educational rights of the negro than toward social intermixture with the race. Results also seem to show the possibility of developing by the Thurstone method of equal-appearing intervals a battery of comparable scales of attitude which will make possible an analysis of specific attitude variables toward the social rights of the negro. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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