HAkan Wiberg' review essay (JPR, No. 4, 1982) on my five-volume Understanding Conflict and War (UCW) unintentionally provides an empirical test of an error assumption I applied to evaluate my propositions. In Volume 4 I tabulated the analyses of 317 quantitative international relations studies as to whether they supported or opposed 54 propositions on conflict, war, and peace. To these tabulations I also applied a one-level decrement to account for any possible bias of mine in favor of the propositions (see Vol. 4, Tables 15A.5, 16C.4, 17A.4, and 18A.3). The overall results are shown in Table I, below.
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