Cultural dimensions reconsidered: global and regional analyses of the ethnographic atlas

There will be distinct groupings of cultural traits that are relatively consistent across culture regions (364).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Factor analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural Traits	Dependent	Total Culture

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
McCall, Lauren W.	2009	“Cultural traits reflecting degree of technical complexity should show stronger correlations among themselves than cultural traits not reflecting technical complexity” (69-70).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
McNett, Charles W., Jr.	1970	A 5-rank ordinal scale of cultural complexity, derived from settlement pattern typology, is presented (in increasing order of complexity): band, village, town, city and state. Linear regression analysis demonstrates an almost perfect relationship between settlement patterns and the average number of complex traits each culture possesses (872, 877)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Acerbi, Alberto	2017	Population size will have an influence on cultural complexity as measured by the number of traits in "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The tale of the kind and the unkind girls"	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Smith, Frank J.	1977	In Africa, there will be high nearest neighbor correlations for economic traits and moderate nearest neighbor correlations for sociopolitical traits (153).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Peacey, Sarah	2024	Traits associated with the 'witchcraft phenotype' exhibit phylogenetic transmission.	Partially Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author