A new cross-cultural study of drunkenness

A tribe's extent of drunkenness is related to its level of fear (52)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Tetrachoric correlation and chi-square	Not Supported	Not Significant	`UNKNOWN`	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Degree Of Drunkenness	Dependent	Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholism And Drug Addiction
Level Of Fear (six Fears Tested)	Independent	Drives And Emotions, Sorcery, Eschatology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Schaefer, James Michael	1974	Fearful supernatural beliefs will be correlated with extreme, aggressive drunkenneess (296).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Davis, William N.	1964	"Bilocal, neolocal and, possibly, matrilocal residence patterns should be associated with a high level of drunkenness while patrilocal societies should be associated with a low level of drunkenness" (23)	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
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
Whitehead, Paul C.	1974	The extent of problem score (i.e. problems caused by alcoholism) will be associated with general consumption level, frequency of integrated drinking, approval of drunkenness, and approval of drinking (61).	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1975	A test for association between the suicide rate and fear of death found no support	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author