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Question: BUT is there an > accurate way, acceptable tool for measuring attitudes related to > disability? Idea:> I missed the beginning of this discussion, and don't know what you need this for, but.. Have found using models of disability and the idea of 'influenced by...' really useful - thinking about how people experienced, came into contact with, and lived in systems set up by different models. This can cope with some of the complexity - holding conflicting attitudes and beliefs at the same time, being influenced by what's around although it often conflicts with personal experience, not necessarily behaving in ways that would follow on from whatever political understanding you have - and with accumulating influences through changing beliefs and environments during a lifetime. Perhaps a pie-chart showing percentages of influence of / belief in different models? Could probably come up with groups of key statements related to say medical, charity/tragedy, religious, & social models, and use them in range of agreement tick-boxes. Could perhaps mix these in with general social and political attitude statements - you can tell a lot from how far someone's ideas about disability fit in with their ideas about everything else, or not! I've not needed to do 'accurate' or 'measurement' of attitudes, but use this way of thinking very informally indeed to get an idea of where people are coming from for planning training, influencing individuals, and thinking about cultural change within organisations.