In a 1973 Australian survey, Broom et al. located two distinct subsamples of men in which fathers and sons reported their own status characteristics and those of their sons and fathers, respectively. Inconsistencies between these two subsamples led Broom et al. to infer that "respondents report (perhaps unconsciously) their socioeconomic careers and the careers of their kin in such ways as either to maximize differences between themselves and their sathers or to minimize differences between themselves and their fathers or to minimize differences between themselves and their sons." If true, this would invalidate most stratification research. Reexamination of the Australian data suggests that the paternal and filial reports are not directly comparable. In a sample of Wisconsin men, parental and filial reports of status variables provide unique and direct evidence about the response biases postulated by Broom et al. There is negligible evidence of such biases. Given the relative strengths of the Australian and Wisconsin research designs, we do not believe that further concern about the presence of this type of response error is warranted.