Social asset or social burden: treatment of the aged in non-industrial societies

"If explicit definitions of old age can be determined…these definitions should cluster into a limited number of definitional categories" (19).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
No Formal Test	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Definitions Of The Aged	Dependent	Senescence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Glascock, Anthony P.	1981	"If explicit treatment of the aged can be determined from ethnographic data, these treatments should cluster into a limited number of treatment categories" (23).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1981	"A significant number of the combination supportive/non-supportive treatment will be in the intact/decrepit grouping" (27).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Simmons, Leo W.	1945	"In short, organized priesthood appears as a product of more complex and highly developed social systems, and it is in these that the aged have found the best opportunities for the exercise of priestly functions"	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1981	"If definitional categories exist, then their distribution should be equal" (21).	Not Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1981	"If treatment categories exist, then their distribution should be equal" (24).	Not Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author