A hologeistic study of family structure and sentiment, supernatural beliefs, and drunkenness

"The correlations between social complexity and drunkenness are . . . in the predicted [negative] direction" (179)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Supported	p<.01	-.63	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Drunken Brawling	Dependent	Alcoholism And Drug Addiction
Social Complexity	Independent	Territorial Organization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Davis, William N.	1964	"As predicted, simple local communities and simple states (i.e. a low level of political complexity) tended to be associated with a high frequency of drunkenness while complex communities and complex states were related to a lower frequency of drunkenness" (36)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schaefer, James Michael	1972	"I expected presence of social class distinctions . . . to be linked with mild non-aggressive drunkenness while absence of social class distinctions were expected to be linked with extreme, aggressive drunkenness" (179)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ball, Donald W.	1972	Social complexity will be positively related to game complexity (290).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Davis, William N.	1964	An analysis of interrelated social structure variables revealed that bilateral kinship is relatively the most important predictor of drunkenness (37, 38)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lightner, Aaron D.	2022	The presence of moralizing gods is underestimated in societies with less social complexity.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author