A re-examination of correlations between lynchings and economic indices.
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The low correlation between economic frustration and aggression agrees with studies of British crime rates and with the Hovland and Sears analysis of lynchings.
Abstract
Several faults are found in the Hovland and Sears analysis of lynchings (see 14: 4177). The curves of Negro lynchings and of cotton values are not rectilinear, and the tetrachoric correlation of - .72 between deviations from the trends was distorted. Using trends which more closely fit the data, the product-moment correlation is .014. Deviations from the Ayres index trend correlate - .34 with deviations from the lynching trend (as compared with the tetrachoric r of - .65). The low correlation between economic frustration and aggression agrees with studies of British crime rates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)