Data and analysis scripts for Mesoudi, Chang, Murray & Lu (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, 20142209.
HKdata.csv contains all data. HKdata_explanation.txt contains explanations of all variables within the data file.
mesoudi2015_analysis_copyfreq.R contains R code to run the original analyses reported in the paper regarding comparison of copying frequency across the four cultural groups. mesoudi2015_analysis_scoreXcopy.R contains R code for comparing the relationship between copying frequency and score across groups.
mesoudi2015_reanalysis.Rmd is an RMarkdown file that contains a Bayesian reanalysis of the data using McElreath's rethinking package. It also contains code for making better figures than the bar charts in the original study. mesoudi2015_reanalysis.pdf contains the resulting pdf which is generated by the RMarkdown file.
Mesoudi_etal_ProcB_2015.pdf is the original published paper, and Mesoudi_etal_ProcB_2015_ESM.pdf contains the Electronic Supplementary Material.