Scott Van Keuren's Work in Social Complexity Leads Us to Better

question 39

Multiple Choice

Scott Van Keuren's work in social complexity leads us to better understand

• A) why certain kinds of material objects confer changes in status
• B) how restricting religious iconography can foment rebelliousness
• C) why imitation in material production reduces social factionalism
• D) how exclusivity in knowledge can signal changes in social complexity

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Definitions:

Pearson Correlation

A statistical coefficient expressing the degree of linear relationship between two variables, measured on a scale from -1 to 1.

Ranking Data

A method of organizing data by assigning an ordinal or rank order to different values based on their size or importance.

Sample Spearman

Sample Spearman refers to the computation of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient on a sample data set to assess the monotonic relationship between two variables.

Rank Coefficient

A statistical measure that evaluates the strength and direction of a relationship between two ranked variables.