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I was curious about the article claiming left wing authoritarianism may be nearly as prominent as right wing authoritarianism so I looked into the cited study.

I'm not a scientist nor a wiki editor so I may be going about things wrong here but I noted the example they gave of a "parallel" test to the RWA test. The original question asked if politicians and churches were to always be believed before 'rabble-rousers' but the supposedly equivalent 'left Wing' question asked the same about believing scientists speaking on climate change and evolution instead of 'rabble-rousers'.

In my opinion these are not parallel at all and the implication that climate change and evolution are 'left Wing' beliefs shows an ideological bias. I am unsure if being trusting of the scientific community counts as authoritarianism or not so I won't comment on that. But the study seems, again in my opinion, to not be relevant to left wing authoritarianism and the whole paragraph of this article that cites it is ideological and without proper evidence. ~2025-38642-75 (talk) 12:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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