#3
Although I have not followed the field since my dissertation in 1980, all of the serious criticism back then had to do with the higher stages, and more often than not the criticism was based on the published definitions of the stages which were inadequate given the latest scoring protocols. Entirely
Kohlberg's fault.

I do not now recall the context of the 85% figure, except that it was Kohlberg's. In may even be a figure that was never published, something acquired from the summer spent with Kohlberg at Harvard in 1980. In certainly jives with my sense of the population, although I have never done any studies on this.

I am sure, AJ, that you have long made the connection between stage 4 as you remember it plus my few descriptive words and our beloved traditionalists here. And from what I have just said about the post-conventional level, I am sure you have associated that with many progressives here.