Hidden clusters beyond ethnic boundaries.
Alejandro Peréz VelillaCody J MoserPaul E SmaldinoPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Hidden cluster problems can manifest when broad ethnic categories are used as proxies for cultural traits, especially when traits are assumed to encode cultural distances between groups. We suggest a granular understanding of cultural trait distributions within and between ethnic categories is fundamental to the interpretation of heritability estimates as well as general behavioral outcomes.