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. 2019 Sep 3;14(9):e0220432. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220432

Table 3. Lifestyle items, rating answer keys and ranks.

Item Consensus answer keya Serrucho answer keyb Less wealthy answer keyc Item market rank Free list frequency rankd
Care for children 4.95 4.94 5.00 1 15
Clean water 4.94 4.97 5.00 2 18
Forest meat and fish 4.93 4.97 4.91 3 5
Crops and cropland 4.90 5.00 5.00 4 1
Family 4.90 4.81 4.97 4 23
Good food 4.89 5.00 5.00 6 17
Market supplies and tools 4.88 4.89 4.97 7 2
Livestock 4.86 4.81 4.88 8 4
Visits between family 4.85 4.81 5.00 9 8
Education 4.84 4.81 4.84 10 12
Good house 4.84 4.83 4.91 10 21
Listen to Radio Horeb news 4.81 4.72 5.00 12 26
Purchased food 4.80 4.83 4.91 13 3
Shopping trips 4.80 4.75 4.78 13 9
Good clothes 4.71 4.53 4.72 15 21
Biomedicine 4.71 4.78 4.81 15 7
Firearm hunting 4.65 4.86 4.94 17 10
Weave sáray (cotton bags); †† 4.59 4.83 4.94 18 6
Own electronics 4.59 4.53 4.78 18 18
Reside in birth community 4.59 4.25 4.53 18 16
Listen to flute music 4.45 4.42 4.66 21 132
Drink shocdye’ (homebrew) 4.33 4.25 4.63 22 11
Family helps one another; †† 4.04 4.36 4.44 23 13
Qurpa for health; †† 3.92 4.58 4.34 24 53
Forest medicine; †† 3.76 4.25 4.34 25 18
Shịshi pepper bushes 3.63 3.00 3.81 26 23
Dogs†† 3.45 3.39 3.88 27 23
Non-family helps 3.36 3.39 3.13 28 14
Zinc metal roof; †† 3.36 3.67 3.75 28 102
Väij fruit tree ritual; †† 3.03 3.69 4.03 30 59
Tsimane’ traditional dance; †† 2.97 3.50 3.59 31 132
Bow hunting; †† 2.82 3.94 3.63 32 132
Small family 2.80 2.36 2.88 33 102
Gas stove 2.51 2.50 2.38 34 132
Traveling merchants 2.30 2.22 2.19 35 83
Isätri for luck in the hunt; †† 2.15 3.03 2.69 36 .
Homegrown côs (tobacco) 1.86 2.03 1.94 37 60
Non-Tsimane' friends†† 1.80 1.92 1.47 38 132
Standard Deviation 1.0 .94 1.0

aConsensus ratings range from 1–5, with five being the most important. The consensus key was calculated using the matrix of all individual item ratings weighted by respondent knowledge scores.

bAdjusted for average ratings deviations from the consensus key among Serrucho residents.

cAdjusted for average ratings deviations from the consensus key among respondents with less wealth.

dBased on free list frequencies, with items of the same frequency assigned the same rank.

(.) Item not mentioned in a free list but observed during ethnography

Items with largest deviations among Serrucho residents

††Items with largest deviations among respondents with less wealth.