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These groups pop out with k-means clustering. But only at k=5 do you get something that looks like traditional racial grouping. Beyond that the races are unreco
by novacole 8y ago
These groups pop out with k-means clustering. But only at k=5 do you get something that looks like traditional racial grouping. Beyond that the races are unrecognizable. And so too for below that. At K=2 there are only Africans (with Europeans clustered into that group) and Asians (with native Americans and Pacific Islanders cluster into that group)[0]
[0] Genetic Structure
of Human Populations
https://rosenberglab.stanford.edu/papers/popstruct.pdf https://rosenberglab.stanford.edu/papers/popstruct.pdf