The sex of our gods

"Patrilineal societies should be more likely than matrilineal societies to give greater emphasis to male deities than to female deities" (41).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Not Supported	Not Significant	phi= -.02	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Relative Emphasis On Male Deities	Dependent	Spirits And Gods
Type Of Unilineal Descent	Independent	Rule Of Descent

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Carroll, Michael P.	1979	"Societies characterized by the presence of an organization that tries to coordinate politically autonomous subgroups should give greater relative emphasis to male deities than other societies" (42).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Carroll, Michael P.	1979	"Among those societies in which parents are the primary agents of socialization, cognatic and double-descent societies should give greater emphasis to female deities than should purely unilineal societies" (48).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Carroll, Michael P.	1979	"The more the father acts as the parental disciplinarian in a society, the more likely is that society to emphasize male deities" (44).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Carroll, Michael P.	1979	"The more the young males in a society are disciplined by males, the more likely is that society to emphasize male deities" (45).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schlegel, Alice	1972	". . . in societies in which fraternal authority characterizes the domestic group, there will be an emphasis upon sibling incest; . . . in societies in which the husband has authority over the domestic group, the emphasis will be upon father-daughter incest" (12)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author