We were required to come up with 4 hypotheses, one convergent, one discriminant, one of our choosing, and one factorial validity hypothesis: Convergent: it was hypothesised that individuals who high in levels of authoritarianism would correlate positively and significantly with individuals with high levels of symbolic racism. Discriminant: it was hypothesised that individuals high in symbolic racism would correlate negatively with individuals high in the fairness principle. Other it was hypothesised that individuals high in symbolic racism would also be high in levels of satisfaction with life Factorial validity: it was also hypothesised that the four factors of symbolic racism utilised in this scale do represent attitudes and opinions that reflect implicit forms of bias.
