Developing a scale for modern racism in Australia

The assignment is a research report on the development of a new scale on modern racism in Australia. We have written the introduction as part of an earlier assignment, so all that needs to be written now is the method, results, and discussion/conclusion. 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. Three items were removed for small communality sizes, and one for repetition: WE8 (“Indigenous Australians are themselves to blame…”), ED2R (“Indigenous Australians do not speak up enough in their fight for equal rights”), and ED7R (“The demand from some Indigenous Australians to move the date of Australia Day is completely reasonable”). This analysis had the best simple structure of the others.