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Probably race in some way, because when you control for race all ethnic groups in America outperform the respective groups overseas. Swedish Americans score hig

• wodenokoto 11y ago
  Do you have a source for that?
• duaneb 11y ago
  Race is extremely difficult to control for opposed to income, employment, education, etc. It's difficult to understand from a european racial perspective, but it's like stuffing everyone from the mediterranean to scandinavia into the same race. People who are otherwise genetically disparate share skin color. This is extremely evident in Africa proper but is also evident in e.g. the american "African American" ethnicity. TL;DR unless you're trying to correlate with a specific gene, you're gonna be called racist for trying to correlate skin color to anything. Race in general is a word that is difficult to use correctly in an argument unless you're shooting down someone else's argument. It is virtually meaningless outside of how people extrapolate phenotypes to ethnic identification.
  • a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
    > but it's like stuffing everyone from the mediterranean to scandinavia into the same race That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do almost any way you try to look at it.
    • duaneb 11y ago
      > That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do almost any way you try to look at it. ...why? Europe is a culturally, politically, and genetically diverse place. It makes no sense to group them by "race".
      • a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
        > genetically diverse place On a relative basis, no it isn't.