A comparison of three measures of social complexity

American Anthropologist Vol/Iss. 71 Published In Pages: 706-708
By Schaefer, James Michael

Hypothesis

Naroll's Social Development Index, Freeman's Scale, and Marsh's Index of Differentiation tend to measure the same developmental variable in ranking social complexity.

Note

Variables used to create "social complexity" are too numerous to mention

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Spearman’s rank-order correlationSupportedp<.0005+0.857; +0.782; +0.899One-tailed

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Social ComplexityUNKNOWNNONE