"Galton's Asset" and "Flower's Problem Cultural Networks and Cultural Units in Cross‐Cultural Research Ml (Or, Male Genital Mutilations and Polygyny in Cross‐Cultural Perspective)

Korotayev, Andrey; Munck, Victor de

doi:10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.353

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“…First, they point once again to the importance of galton's Problem, or nonindependence of sample units, in cross-cultural research. Unfortunately, however, as Korotayev and De Munck (2003) note, cross-culturalists have simply chosen to forego testing and correcting for dependencies in their data, relying on the elementary sampling strategy devised by Murdock and White (1969), despite the fact that this strategy was shown to be completely ineffective both in the original study and then subsequently (Dow , 2008Dow and eff, 2007).…”

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Cultural Trait Transmission and Missing Data as Sources of Bias in Cross-Cultural Survey Research

Dow¹,

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2009

Cross-Cultural Research

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Ember, Ember, and Low (2007) recently reported male mortality in warfare and environmental pathogen stress as statistically significant predictors of nonsororal polygyny. Two sources of bias can be identified in their data analysis: 1) omitted variable bias due to not including a variable for cultural trait transmission, that is, Galton's Problem; and 2) bias caused by extensive deletion of cases when the basic assumption required by listwise deletion, that the missing data are missing completely at random, does not hold. We first re-estimated Ember et al.'s model after adding a trait transmission variable using the listwise deletion subsample, and then again after using contemporary multiple imputation procedures to deal with missing data. Our findings indicate that the significant effects reported for male mortality and pathogen stress are the result of these two sources of bias. The only significant predictor of the world-wide distribution of nonsororal polygyny in the current analyses is cultural trait transmission.

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Cultural Trait Transmission and Missing Data as Sources of Bias in Cross-Cultural Survey Research

Dow¹,

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2009

Cross-Cultural Research

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“…Flower raised a second objection to Tyler's work: "It was, however, perfectly obvious that the value of such a method depended entirely upon the units of comparison being of equivalent value, and this seemed to him to be a very great difficulty when dealing with groups of mankind" (Tyler 1889, 271). "Flower's question," as it came to be known (Korotayev and de Munck 2003), involves a question of scale. Mallon (2013) has two examples of inheritance thinking: Brazil and the Vezo.…”

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Cross-cultural Research, Evolutionary Psychology, and Racialism: Problems and Prospects

Jackson¹

2016

Philosophy and Theory in Biology

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Philosophers defending evolutionary/cognitive accounts of racialism argue that cross-cultural psychological research has discovered similar patterns of racial reasoning around the globe. Such research, they hold, simultaneously supports the existence of an underlying cognitive mechanism for essentialist thinking while undercutting social constructionist accounts of racialism. I argue that they are mistaken for two reasons. First, evolutionary/cognitive researchers are unfamiliar with constructionist accounts of global racialism which explain similarities and differences in racialism. Second, evolutionary/cognitive accounts that make cross-cultural claims shoulder probative obligations for showing the independence of the cultures being compared, and these obligations have not been met. I argue that further evolutionary/cognitive research on racialism must account for constructionist models of global racialism while meeting the argumentative obligations of cross-cultural research.

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“…Harrington 1968; Korotayev and De Munck 2003), although this was the original definition provided in the Ethnographic Atlas of George Peter Murdock (1967:161). The use of the term mutilation for male practices is nowadays used confined to anti-male circumcision movements in USA (Gollaher 2000;Bell 2005).…”

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Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand's Muslims: rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses

Merli

2010

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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. (2010) 'Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand's Muslims : rituals, biomedical practices, and local discourses.', Culture, health sexuality., 12 (7). pp. 725-738. Further information on publisher's website: The publisher of this article has made the full-text of the published version available for download at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASiin3NHEIqHWPUHas92/full -a limit of 50 downloads has been set, on a rst-come, rst served basis. Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. . Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand's Muslims: rituals, biomedical practices, and local discourses. Culture, Health and Sexuality 12(7): 725-738.2 Abstract This paper explores how the local Muslims in a province in southern Thailand perceive the practice of male and female genital cutting. In order to understand the importance placed on these practices, a comparison is drawn between the two and also between the male circumcision and the Buddhist ordination of monks as rites of passage. Discourses on the exposure or concealment of male and female bodies respectively, witness to the relevance of both the local political-historical context and biomedical hegemony to gendered bodies. The comparisons evince the need to reflect upon the theoretical and ethical implications of studying genital cutting and focussing exclusively on one of the two practices rather than, as this paper claims to be necessary, considering them as inextricably connected.

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"Galton's Asset" and "Flower's Problem Cultural Networks and Cultural Units in Cross‐Cultural Research Ml (Or, Male Genital Mutilations and Polygyny in Cross‐Cultural Perspective)

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Cultural Trait Transmission and Missing Data as Sources of Bias in Cross-Cultural Survey Research

Cultural Trait Transmission and Missing Data as Sources of Bias in Cross-Cultural Survey Research

Cross-cultural Research, Evolutionary Psychology, and Racialism: Problems and Prospects

Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand's Muslims: rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses

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