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> According to PBS, Jared Diamond, and many sociology departments, it is impossible to administer a genetic test that distinguishes African Americans from Asian
by cousin_it 15y ago
> According to PBS, Jared Diamond, and many sociology departments, it is impossible to administer a genetic test that distinguishes African Americans from Asians
Are you sure Jared Diamond actually made that statement? It seems weird. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering mentions a study where genetic markers were found to predict self-reported race/ethnic group with a discrepancy of only 0.14%.
- temphn 15y agoOf course Jared Diamond was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Human_genetic_diversity:_Lewontins_fallacy%22_(scientific_paper) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Human_genetic_diversity:_Lew... But many people accept his premises.
- tokenadult 15y agoThat is one of the worst entries on all of Wikipedia, and misrepresents what the sources say by undue weight. The clean-up of Wikipedia on these issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race_and_intelligence#Case_amendments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/... will take a long time.