Fig. 1: Posterior estimates of geographic and cultural phylogenetic signal for a range of economic development and cultural values variables.
From: Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations
Geographic and cultural phylogenetic signals are operationalised as the proportion of national-level variance explained by geographic and linguistic proximity matrices. Grey ridges are full posterior distributions, points are posterior median values, and black lines are equal-tailed 50% and 95% credible intervals. Number of observations from these models are as follows: HDI (n = 1449), GDP per capita (n = 10289), GDP per capita growth (n = 9755), Gini index (n = 1826), traditional values (n = 277676), survival values (n = 277676), tightness (n = 57), and individualism (n = 67). HDI Human Development Index, GDP gross domestic product.
