Table 3.

ANOVA famine in warm-climate hunter–gatherers versus other warm-climate subsistence modes.

variable	n1	n2	F	p	power
ordinary nutritional conditions and endemic starvation	14	18	21.6	0.015* hunter–gatherers lower	0.705
occurrence of short-term starvation	15	39	0.87	0.356	0.150
occurrence of seasonal starvation	15	39	2.3	0.136	0.319
occurrence of famine	14	38	14.1	0.000** hunter–gatherers lower	0.957
severity of famine	9	21	3.2	0.087 hunter–gatherers lower	0.402
persistence of famine	7	27	7.6	0.010** hunter–gatherers lower	0.763
recurrence of famine	9	33	6.2	0.017* hunter–gatherers lower	0.683
contingency of famine	6	25	11.6	0.002** hunter–gatherers lower	0.907

*Significant at 0.05, **significant at 0.01.