Abstract
Pandey's diconfirmation of the hypothesis that attitudes toward death will vary according to sex and race is confounded by analytical and methodological inconsistencies.
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Similarly, despite Pandey's recognition that a '... test should contain 25 items relating to each identifiable factor' (1, p. 10), individual factors were at most derived from four items, often from no more than two or three items, and in the case of optimism in blacks from only a single salient.