{"id":137822,"date":"2021-03-12T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137822"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:27:20","slug":"the-relationship-between-cultural-tightness-looseness-and-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-a-global-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137822","title":{"rendered":"The relationship between cultural tightness\u2013looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first read about this study on Steve Sailer’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Lancet:<\/a><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis, yet certain countries have had far more success in limiting COVID-19 cases and deaths. We suggest that collective threats require a tremendous amount of coordination, and that strict adherence to social norms is a key mechanism that enables groups to do so. Here we examine how the strength of social norms\u2014or cultural tightness\u2013looseness\u2014was associated with countries\u2019 success in limiting cases and deaths by October, 2020. We expected that tight cultures, which have strict norms and punishments for deviance, would have fewer cases and deaths per million as compared with loose cultures, which have weaker norms and are more permissive.<\/p>\n

Findings: The results indicated that, compared with nations with high levels of cultural tightness, nations with high levels of cultural looseness are estimated to have had 4\u00b799 times the number of cases (7132 per million vs 1428 per million, respectively) and 8\u00b771 times the number of deaths (183 per million vs 21 per million, respectively), taking into account a number of controls. A formal evolutionary game theoretic model suggested that tight groups cooperate much faster under threat and have higher survival rates than loose groups. The results suggest that tightening social norms might confer an evolutionary advantage in times of collective threat.<\/p>\n

Interpretation: Nations that are tight and abide by strict norms have had more success than those that are looser as of the October, 2020. New interventions are needed to help countries tighten social norms as they continue to battle COVID-19 and other collective threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first read about this study on Steve Sailer’s blog. From Lancet: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis, yet certain countries have had far more success in limiting COVID-19 cases and deaths. We suggest that collective threats require … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t