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If you want a screwed up child you would pick from the "or's". If you want a well-adjusted child you would put "and's" in there just as another poster suggested. When I read articles such as the one you linked, I begin to realize just why many of the younger generation are so screwed up. It is sad that they have to be fed such nonsense. A good parent, teacher, etc, is not going to instruct in an either/or mentality. Maybe that is the real problem.
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You didn't read the article.
The questions are not meant to be about child rearing. Everyone wants their children to have all of those qualities.
"Feldman, a professor at SUNY Stonybrook, believed authoritarianism could be an important factor in American politics in ways that had nothing to do with fascism, but that it could only reliably be measured by unlinking it from specific political preferences.
He realized that if authoritarianism were a personality profile rather than just a political preference, he could get respondents to reveal these tendencies by asking questions about a topic that seemed much less controversial. He settled on something so banal it seems almost laughable: parenting goals.
Feldman developed what has since become widely accepted as the definitive measurement of authoritarianism: four simple questions that appear to ask about parenting but are in fact designed to reveal how highly the respondent values hierarchy, order, and conformity over other values.
Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: independence or respect for elders?
Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: obedience or self-reliance?
Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: to be considerate or to be well-behaved?
Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: curiosity or good manners?
Feldman's test proved to be very reliable. There was now a way to identify people who fit the authoritarian profile, by prizing order and conformity, for example, and desiring the imposition of those values."
It's only an opinion not a fact. It was new information for me.