A Cross-Cultural Summary: Fertility

Societies with high food taboos observations will have a high composite fertility level (280, 449).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	P = 0.015	Phi = 0.68	Two-Tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Fertility	Association	Birth Statistics
Food Taboos	Association	Diet

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to be those where people have a high fear of strangers (286, 441).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"The largest number of food taboos [in pregnancy] should be observed in societies where there is a high reward of dependency in childhood" (115)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Human Relations Area Files	1961	Number of animal food taboos and intensity of taboos will be associated with measures of animal food in the diet (3)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	There will tend to be medium or high food taboo observations in societies freely permitting sexual freedom (389, 450).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with extreme boastfulness will have a high composite fertility level (280, 474).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author