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Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2023
Abstract
Behavior genetics often emphasizes methods over the underlying quality of the psychological information to which the methods are applied. A core aspect of this quality is the demographic diversity of the samples. Building causal genetic models based only on European-ancestry samples compromises their generalizability. Behavior genetics researchers must spend additional time and resources diversifying their samples before emphasizing causation.
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