The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)

Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by shard972 on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:35PM (#16525913)

What are you talking about? Why is it then we can see that african americans are taller than asian americans? I would be pretty shocked if it turned out asian americans were more malnutrinted than african americans.

> African Americans on average are taller, but that is probably due to environmental differences and selection bias (slavery etc).

The papers I have seen don't really bear this out at all. Here is what the NHS says about it https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height

Right on the first line

> Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual’s height is determined by the DNA sequence variants they have inherited,

That seems to back up what I'm saying.

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by spicymaki on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:38PM (#16532330)

I said African Americans are taller and that might be due to selection pressure (DNA) as well as environment (better diet, etc). My comment was not about Asian Americans at all. I was talking about Mainland Chinese in China, comparing Mainland Chinese to Africans in Africa given height data.

The comment I was responding to was that Africans are predisposed to being tall genetically, and my response to that is we do not have evidence of that given the data we have about these populations.

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