Comment on 'correlates of political complexity'

"[There is a] relationship between political complexity . . . and the frequency of attacking" (114)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Not Supported	above .10	.06	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Frequency Of Attacking	Dependent	Instigation Of War
Political Complexity	Independent	Territorial Organization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Otterbein, Keith F.	1971	There is a ". . . relationship between frequency of attacking and military success" (114)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1968	". . . the more frequently the political communities of a cultural unit are attacked, the more frequently they will attack other societies" (285)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1971	"[There is a] relationship between political complexity and the frequency of being attacked" (114)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1971	[There is a] ". . . relationship between the frequency of being attacked and military success" (114)	Not 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