Whitley contends that our recent study exploring the role of dogmatism as a moderator of mock Juries' responses to judicial instructions was deficient conceptually, psychometricaly, and statistically, thus leading the reader to draw potentially erroneous conclusions. Although our original presentation left us open to criticism, we argue that our conceptualization and measurement of our group-evel construct (jury dogmatism) were not deficient, and wefurther demonstrate that our original conclusions were quite reasonable and did not capitalize on improper scaling procedures and statistical techniques.
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