Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00122018" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00122018 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03655-4" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03655-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

595

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

7866

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

„E29“-„E34“

Kód UT WoS článku

000671377900003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85109393658