According to Hofstede (2010), the GLOBE team's rationalization for the negative
correlation was a "deprivation hypothesis: societies lacking a desired characteristic are
the most likely to want more of it" (p. 1344). Hofstede stated that he was "comfortable
with this extended explanation, on which for once even the GLOBE team could agree"
(p. 1344). In Hofstede's own research on values, he had found that respondents could
express unconscious values through perceptions of "as is" that were not value-neutral
more clearly than they could in their responses to "should be" queries (p. 1344).