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Accidentally removed my comment when I wanted to reply, but whatever. I never said that we can infer everything from European data. I never said collecting Afr
by float4 5y ago
Accidentally removed my comment when I wanted to reply, but whatever.
I never said that we can infer everything from European data. I never said collecting African genetic data is pointless. I know that Europeans do not vary nearly as much from a genetic standpoint as Africans (although they're definitely not clones). I know you can't generalise using European/Asian data. I know larger samples describe the population better.
All I said is that it's easier to analyse data that is less variable, and that Europeans aren't clones. Both points are true. Finding patterns is more difficult when there is more variance in the data. That doesn't mean it's pointless, it's actually more useful, but it's also more difficult.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoWhy are we clinging to "generalizability"?