The conditions that may favor avunculocal residence

Double descent societies with avunculocality will have polygyny significantly more than double descent societies that are patrilocal (254).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Polygyny	Association	Polygamy
Residence	Association	Residence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Melvin	1974	"Double descent societies with avunculocality should have polygyny significantly more often than the double descent societies that are patrilocal" (207)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Nimkoff, M. F.	1965	"[Residence and descent are highly correlated.] Nearly all patrilineal cultures are patrilocal or matri-patrilocal. . . . If matrilineal, societies may be patrilocal or matrilocal, with the latter predominating. . . . If the rule is double descent, the cultures are almost exclusively patrilocal" (24)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1992	Matrilineality and double descent will be associated with women's overt political power (70).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1972	"Matrilineal descent is almost invariably found in association with either avunculocal or matrilocal residence, patrilocal residence accompanies patrilineal, ambilineal and double descent, whereas bilateral descent coexists freely with all except avunculocal rule" (273-274)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Carroll, Michael P.	1979	"Among those societies in which parents are the primary agents of socialization, cognatic and double-descent societies should give greater emphasis to female deities than should purely unilineal societies" (48).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author