Is genetic variation greater within racial groups than it is between them?
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@jim @ice

I think the reason you're getting results you're surprised by is because the question is vague. Obviously if you take two people within the same racial group (call them A and B) and then you take a third person from a different racial group (call them C), the genetic variation on average between A and B will probably be less than that between A and C, or B and C.

The problem is that that's not explicitly what the question is asking. "Racial group" is already a vague and amorphous term. "Genetic variation" isn't necessarily an easily quantifiable metric, and the question isn't defined in a way that would lead each person to imagine the same definitional criteria for assessing this.

The most intuitive read of this question, in my opinion, is the one that is sort of the "conventional modern wisdom" which states something like:

-If greater than 50% of human genetic variation can be accounted for within individual racial groups or populations, then you can think of the contribution to genetic variation from "within the racial group" as larger than the contribution "between or among all racial groups". I think most studies would show that very high percentages of genetic variation are contained within individual populations or racial groups, which is why most people are answering yes to this. I'm gonna click yes now for that reason as well.

@benshindel vibes based reasoning

@jim

Please have some respect.

Then judge has ruled. Close your poll and stop wasting everyone's time.

The judgment is final.

Wud?

@ice i dont get why everyones pressing yes

@jim no kidding. Greater difference WITHIN Azkhani Jews and WITHIN the Nepalese??

Yes pressers honestly believe the genetic variation is greater within those groups than between?

Shoulda had a "virtue signal" option so we could get real results.

@ice their flag should be the first sign... wtf is two triangles? Who allowed this flagrant disrepute of lexiography!!!!

@ice its a prettt good 🤖 test, they all sing the same tune

@jim

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⏬️🐂ygen

Will AGI have the ability to leave its corpse and/or trash atop humanity's greatest summit on earth?

Basically can AGI exist just on earth or by definition must it land on a rock further than Luna?

@benshindel - judgement on this plz 🙏

@ice

Vital note:

Some (obviously racist and GOP sponsored) sources claim Nepal as the country with the lowest IQ.

If one evolves to climb mountains - just fucking try and argue they aren't not evolved to scurry up hills - how TF does one evolve the ability to get back down the hill for its food (tokens)?

gradient descent

Still in the 2010s @Pykess or am I getting smarter?

Hitherto, true intelligence (g negative) is the lowest IQ and the more GPUs trends toward lower IQ.

Logic, friends, logic. It is SERIOUSLY missing around here 🙃

@ice I'm confused what I'm supposed to be judging?

@jim I pressed yes because there are more axes than race that genes can vary on, such as height, physiological differences, susceptibility to illness, etc and the poll just asks about genetic variation, not genetic variation of racial characteristics

Yes, but not for all groups

@ProjectVictory can you give an example where it is true?

@jim Because humans originated in Africa, African people have higher genetic diversity. I'd say that it's definitely true for black people but questionable for other races, simply because they had more time to diversify.

@jim There are outlier cases like the North Sentinelese people as well

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