Size of color lexicon: interaction of cultural and biological factors

Controlling on social complexity, latitude will be related to number of basic color terms (366).

Supported v stat sign only in societies higher in social complexity, suggesting that high latitude predicts only where social complexity is high.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Koura Sow, Ndeye Meissa	2025	Relationship between color and warmth vs coolness will be stronger with age.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Berlin, Brent	1969	"In addition to the fact that the stages of complexity of color vocabulary have a temporal ordering, there appears to be a positive correlation between general cultural complexity and complexity of color vocabulary" (16)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hays, David G.	1972	The number of color terms in a society's language is strongly correlated with its level of social complexity (1118)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1978	Speech communities further from the equator will be positively associated with having six or more basic color terms (364)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hays, David G.	1972	"Ethnographers use the early terms in the Berlin-Kay list in almost every societal description that deals with color; they tend to use later terms in fewer descriptions, and only in desciptions that also use some of the early terms" (1118)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author