The question was “what would you expect..?” I am sure that it depends, but what is the outcome?
do they share cultural overlap with Protestant Europe/America
The culture of African-Americans clearly has more “cultural overlap” than the culture of Africans—would you agree? Given this, would you claim that African-Americans (after adjusting for the percentage of white, etc. genes that most of them have) have considerably higher (10-12 points) measured IQ than Africans?
under which lens should I have looked at that evidence?
I find “matching reality” to be a reasonably good lens :-)
Given this, would you claim that African-Americans (after adjusting for the percentage of white, etc. genes that most of them have) have considerably higher (10-12 points) measured IQ than Africans?
Last time I looked the former did have considerably higher measured IQ than the latter (around 85 vs around 70), so what’s your point?
Did you adjust for the percentage of white genes? Most African-Americans are about 25-50% non-black by ancestry, as far as I remember. That would influence the mean IQ.
When comparing populations of third-world and first-world countries you also have to be very careful to account for things like malnutrition, etc.
Did you adjust for the percentage of white genes? Most African-Americans are about 25-50% non-black by ancestry, as far as I remember. That would influence the mean IQ.
No, actually I remembered mentioning something about Ethiopians having lots of Caucasian DNA, used Wei Dai’s tool to search my comments for it, and… I was kind of surprised it was talking to the same person that time too.
The question was “what would you expect..?” I am sure that it depends, but what is the outcome?
The culture of African-Americans clearly has more “cultural overlap” than the culture of Africans—would you agree? Given this, would you claim that African-Americans (after adjusting for the percentage of white, etc. genes that most of them have) have considerably higher (10-12 points) measured IQ than Africans?
I find “matching reality” to be a reasonably good lens :-)
Last time I looked the former did have considerably higher measured IQ than the latter (around 85 vs around 70), so what’s your point?
Did you adjust for the percentage of white genes? Most African-Americans are about 25-50% non-black by ancestry, as far as I remember. That would influence the mean IQ.
When comparing populations of third-world and first-world countries you also have to be very careful to account for things like malnutrition, etc.
Looks like we already had this same conversation before. ;-)
Ah. You have a better memory than I do :-)
No, actually I remembered mentioning something about Ethiopians having lots of Caucasian DNA, used Wei Dai’s tool to search my comments for it, and… I was kind of surprised it was talking to the same person that time too.