Talk:World Values Survey
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[edit] Reception and criticism
I don't think the "Reception and criticism" part makes any sense at all for several reasons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.241.235.108 (talk • 69.241.235.108) 10 July 2006.
Then on 26 July 2006, contribs removed the said section, which had read:
- The Dutch intercultural researcher Geert Hofstede positively receives the WVS results. Referring specifically to Inglehart's two-dimensional reduction of his results as represented by the Inglehart Map, Hofstede claims that it supports his own work. "Inglehart's key cultural dimensions were significantly correlated with [my] dimensions. Well-being versus survival correlated strongly with individualism and masculinity; secular-rational versus traditional authority correlated negatively with power distance."[1] However, Inglehart's two dimensions are not identical to Hofstede's five dimensions. Given the differences in methodology (Hofstede's research came from work values surveys given to IBM employees) it is unsurprising that there are differences between his results and those of the World Values Survey.
- ^ Hofstede, Geert (2001). Cultures Consequences. Sage Publications. ISBN 0803973233., pp.33-34.
The reason given in the edit summary was: Removed irrelevant comment about work by Ron Inglehart based on the WVS, comment was not about the WVS itself and thus was off-topic.
It seems to me that the above paragraph could have been better written. But to say it is off-topic is a bit harsh. It's closely related to the Inglehart Map, which the article says is one of the "most well-known results of the WVS survey". Given that someone has gone to the trouble of finding this reference and providing the information about Hofstede's partial validation of the Inglehart Map, it doesn't seem appropriate for this material to be removed from Wikipedia altogether. Could it go somewhere else, e.g. in Post-materialism? Would 69.241.235.108 like to specify what the "several reasons" for objecting were? -- JimR 03:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
