| BEHEIM, Bret, Quentin D. ATKINSON, Joseph BULBULIA, Will GERVAIS, Russel D. GRAY, Joseph HENRICH, Martin LANG, M. Willis MONROE, Michael MUTHUKRISHNA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Azim SHARIFF, Edward SLINGERLAND, Rachel SPICER and Aiyana K. WILLARD. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021, vol. 595, No 7866, p. "E29"-"E34", 6 pp. ISSN 0028-0836. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4. |
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@article{1784440,
author = {Beheim, Bret and Atkinson, Quentin D. and Bulbulia, Joseph and Gervais, Will and Gray, Russel D. and Henrich, Joseph and Lang, Martin and Monroe, M. Willis and Muthukrishna, Michael and Norenzayan, Ara and Purzycki, Benjamin Grant and Shariff, Azim and Slingerland, Edward and Spicer, Rachel and Willard, Aiyana K.},
article_location = {LONDON},
article_number = {7866},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4},
keywords = {missing data; moralizing gods; cultural evolution},
language = {eng},
issn = {0028-0836},
journal = {Nature},
title = {Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03655-4},
volume = {595},
year = {2021}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1784440
AU - Beheim, Bret - Atkinson, Quentin D. - Bulbulia, Joseph - Gervais, Will - Gray, Russel D. - Henrich, Joseph - Lang, Martin - Monroe, M. Willis - Muthukrishna, Michael - Norenzayan, Ara - Purzycki, Benjamin Grant - Shariff, Azim - Slingerland, Edward - Spicer, Rachel - Willard, Aiyana K.
PY - 2021
TI - Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods
JF - Nature
VL - 595
IS - 7866
SP - "E29"-"E34"
EP - "E29"-"E34"
PB - NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
SN - 00280836
KW - missing data
KW - moralizing gods
KW - cultural evolution
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03655-4
N2 - Whitehouse, et al.1 used the Seshat archaeo-historical databank2 to argue that beliefs in moralizing gods appear in world history only after the formation of complex ‘megasocieties’ of around one million people. However, inspection of the data they used shows that 61% of the data points on moralizing gods in the Seshat databank are missing values, mostly from smaller populations of less than one million people. In their analysis, the authors re-coded these data points to signify the absence of belief in moralizing gods. When we confine the analysis to only the extant data, or instead use various standard imputation methods, the reported finding is reversed: moralizing gods precede increases in social complex- ity. Our reanalyses suggest that the reported ‘megasociety threshold’ for the emergence of moralizing gods is an artefact of the decision to re-code all missing data as known absences of moralizing gods.
ER -
BEHEIM, Bret, Quentin D. ATKINSON, Joseph BULBULIA, Will GERVAIS, Russel D. GRAY, Joseph HENRICH, Martin LANG, M. Willis MONROE, Michael MUTHUKRISHNA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Azim SHARIFF, Edward SLINGERLAND, Rachel SPICER and Aiyana K. WILLARD. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. \textit{Nature}. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021, vol.~595, No~7866, p.~''E29''-''E34'', 6 pp. ISSN~0028-0836. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4.
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