I recently figured out that the two national dimensions identified by
Hofstede as MAS and UAI actually tap into one sengle factor. Even
though, at the IBM survey level, they showed up as two orthogonal
dimensions, it is abundantly clear from validating data that they
load on only one single dimension.

To demonstrate this in a fair way, I went through the back of
Culture's Consequences, which lists a variety of correlates of the
five cultural dimensions, and compiled a list of all the measures
which correlate with both UAI and MAS, where both of these dimensions
are listed as independantly contributing to the regression analysis ,
in either the positive or negative direction. Here are the results:

< < Correlated Together > >

Home Life Balance: -UAI, -MAS

"Send unemployed aliens back": -UAI, -MAS
"Send illegal aliens back": -UAI, -MAS

Wealthy countries – "Most people can be trusted": -UAI, -MAS

Wealthy countries – "Women want home, not job": +UAI, +MAS

Will fight for Country: -UAI, -MAS

Delta grooms–brides on value of chastity: +UAI, +MAS (i.e. in high
UAI, high MAS societies, there is a greater sexual double standard;
brides are expected more than grooms to be chaste)

Percentage of women in government: -UAI, -MAS

Job ads require social abilities: -UAI, -MAS

Participation in associations: -UAI, -MAS

Catholics vs Protestants: +UAI, +MAS
(Wealthy only) Catholics vs Protestants: +UAI, +MAS

Corruption Perception Index: -UAI, -MAS

Ethnolinguistic vitality: +UAI, +MAS

(Wealthy only) Latitude: -UAI, -MAS



< < Correlated Inversely > >

Capacity leadership: -UAI, +MAS

(Wealthy only) Economic Freedom Index: -UAI, +MAS

1925 Need for Achievement: -UAI, +MAS


These results become even more impressive when noting that the
correlations with "Need for Achievement" only existed for 1925 survey
data, whereas the same survey repeated in 1950 gave no correlations;
thus Need for Achievement does not appear to be meaningfully related
to either UAI, MAS, or the joint factor which relates to both
dimensions.

This verifies the subjective impression that MAS and UAI are both
tapping into a single dimension, which I will momentarily call "X".
Here are several other variables which were not included in the
systematic analysis above which correlate with MAS and UAI.

Variables covarying positively with dimension X:

* Tipping
* Lynn's Anxiety index
* Faith in advertizing
* Confidence in the church (stronger with MAS)
* Religious upbringing (stronger with MAS)
* Neuroticism

* Use of cosmetics and deodorants (stronger with UAI)
* Latitude in wealthy countries (cold countries use more deodorant!)
* Agreeableness
* Conscientiousness


A couple things to note are that Lynn's Anxiety dimension was related
to frequency of storms and sunspots; both of these things may relate
to X as well.

The question of whether or not X exists seems to be answered. The
question now is: What should it be called? What does it mean?


--Mark