Climatic instability, food storage, and the development of numerical counting: a cross-cultural study

There will be a relationship between latitude and counting systems (343).

Tests using both the PSF and SCCS suggest that latitude not significantly related to counting systems.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Highest Number Counted	Dependent	Numeration
Latitude	Independent	Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Divale, William Tulio	1999	Societies that store significant amounts of food will have more elaborate counting systems (343).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Wolfe, Linda D.	1982	Human sexual dimorphism of stature will be associated with latitude category (409, 413).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Wolfe, Linda D.	1982	Marriage system will be associated with latitude category (409, 413).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Van de Vliert, Evert	2020	Location (latitude) was significantly related to rates of intergroup differentiation in the 1970s (3).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
McCall, Lauren W.	2009	“[P]opulations in colder or more unstable climates are more likely to store food and thus to count to higher numbers” (71).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author