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The importance of reporting the distributional criteria of FA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Sally Walters
Sally Walters
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C., Canada V5A 1S6 swaltera@sfu.ca
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Abstract

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Not all of the studies cited in the target article as evidence that fluctuating asymmetry (FA) predicts male mating success demonstrate that the observed asymmetry is, in fact, FA. FA is a population-level pattern of differences between sides. Unless the population-level distributional criteria of bilateral traits are reported, the meaning of asymmetry in individuals is unknown.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 623 - 624
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press