PropertyValue
?:abstract
  • Cross-national analyses test hypotheses about the drivers of variation in national outcomes. However, since nations are connected in various ways, such as via spatial proximity and shared cultural ancestry, cross-national analyses often violate assumptions of non-independence, inflating false positive rates. Here, we show that, despite being recognised as an important statistical pitfall for over 200 years, cross-national research in economics and psychology still does not sufficiently account for non-independence. In a review of the 100 highest-cited cross-national studies of economic development and values, we find that controls for non-independence are rare. When studies do control for non-independence, our simulations suggest that most commonly used methods are insufficient for reducing false positives in non-independent data. In reanalyses of twelve previous cross-national correlations, half of the estimates are compatible with no association after controlling for non-independence using global proximity matrices. We urge social scientists to sufficiently control for non-independence in cross-national research. (xsd:string)
?:author
?:comment
  • (EVS) (xsd:string)
?:dataSource
  • EVS-Bibliography (xsd:string)
?:dateModified
  • 2023 (xsd:gyear)
?:datePublished
  • 2023 (xsd:gyear)
?:doi
  • 10.1038/s41467-023-41486-1 ()
?:duplicate
?:fromPage
  • 1 (xsd:string)
is ?:hasPart of
?:inLanguage
  • english (xsd:string)
?:isPartOf
?:issn
  • 20411723 ()
?:issueNumber
  • 1 (xsd:string)
is ?:mainEntity of
?:name
  • Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations (xsd:string)
?:publicationType
  • article (xsd:string)
?:reference
?:sourceInfo
  • Bibsonomy (xsd:string)
  • In Nature Communications, 14(1), 1-13, 2023 (xsd:string)
?:studyGroup
  • European Values Study (EVS) (xsd:string)
?:tags
  • 2023 (xsd:string)
  • CCBY (xsd:string)
  • EVS (xsd:string)
  • EVS_input2023 (xsd:string)
  • EVS_pro (xsd:string)
  • FDZ_IUP (xsd:string)
  • OA_SSOAR (xsd:string)
  • OAproved (xsd:string)
  • SCIEindexed (xsd:string)
  • SCOPUSindexed (xsd:string)
  • article (xsd:string)
  • english (xsd:string)
  • indexproved (xsd:string)
  • jak (xsd:string)
  • review_proved (xsd:string)
  • transfer23 (xsd:string)
?:toPage
  • 13 (xsd:string)
rdf:type
?:url
?:volumeNumber
  • 14 (xsd:string)