Forced Choice F Scale – Form II (Christie)

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) It is highly unlikely that astrology will ever be able to explain anything. OR (b) Someday it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Sex crimes, such as rape and attacks on children, are signs of mental illness; such people belong in hospitals rather than in prison. OR (b) Sex criminals such as those who rape and attack children, deserve more than mere imprisonment: such criminals ought to be publicly whipped, or worse.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) No sane, normal, decent person could ever think of hurting a close friend or relative. OR (b) It’s only natural for people to sometimes have thoughts about hurting a close friend or relative.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) If it weren't for the rebellious ideas of youth there would be less progress in the world. OR (b) Young people sometimes get rebellious ideas, but as they grow up they ought to get over them and settle down.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) There are many difficulties a person cannot overcome no matter how much will power he has. OR (b) No weakness or difficulty can hold us back if we have enough will power.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Many people have too great a fear of plots hatched in secret by politicians. OR (b) Most people don't realize how much of our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) A person with bad manners, habits, and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people. OR (b) People should be willing to overlook failures in manners and unpleasant personal habits in other people.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Human nature doesn't make war inevitable; man may someday establish a peaceful world. OR (b) Human nature being what it is there will always be war and conflict.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Familiarity breeds contempt. OR (b) You may dislike a person very much, but the chances are that if you get to know him well you'll have more respect for him.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) It would be a good thing if people spent more time thinking and talking about ideas just for the fun of it. OR (b) If people would talk less and work more, everybody would be better off.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) What a youth needs most is strict discipline, rugged determination, and the will to work and fight for family and country. OR (b) In the long run it is better for our country if young people are allowed a great deal of personal freedom and are not strictly disciplined.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Nowadays more and more people are prying into matters that should remain personal and private. OR (b) There are times when it is necessary to probe into even the most personal and private matters.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) The businessman and the manufacturer are much more important to society than the artist and the professor. OR (b) The artist and the professor are probably more important to society than the businessman.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Science has its place, but there are many important things that can never possibly be understood by the human mind. OR (b) The findings of science may someday show that many of our most cherished beliefs are wrong.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn. OR (b) One of the most important things children should learn is when to disobey authorities.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Most honest people admit to themselves that they have sometimes hated their parents. OR (b) There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not feel great love, gratitude, and respect for his parents.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) The wild sex life of the old Greeks and Romans was tame compared to some of the goings-on in this country, even in places where people might least expect it. OR (b) In spite of what you read about the wild sex life of people in important places, the real story is about the same in any group of people.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Even though people of all sorts mix together nowadays, you don't have to worry very much about catching an infection or disease. OR (b) Nowadays when so many different kinds of people move around and mix together so much, a person has to protect himself especially carefully against catching an infection or disease from them.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) It’s nobody's business if someone is a homosexual as long as he doesn't harm other people. OR (b) Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) People can be divided into two distinct classes, the weak and the strong. OR (b) It doesn't make much sense to divide people into groups like the weak and the strong; too many people are strong in some ways and weak in others.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) When a person has a problem or worry it is best to face it and try to think it through, even if it is so upsetting that it keeps him from concentrating on other things. OR (b) When a person has a problem or worry, it is best for him not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) It is more important for this country to have a just legal and political system than a series of trustworthy leaders, however, courageous, tireless, and devoted they might be. OR (b) What this country needs most, more than laws and political programs, is a few courageous, tireless, devoted leaders in whom the people can put their faith.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) An insult to honor should always be punished. OR (b) Insults to our honor are not always important enough to bother about it.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Some people are born with an urge to jump from high places. OR (b) An urge to jump from high places is probably the result of unhappy personal experiences rather than something inborn.

Choose the statement you agree with more: (a) Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question. OR (b) It’s all right for people to raise questions about even the most sacred matters.