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by notNow 3912 days ago
Did they run the same experiment but with people from different backgrounds and ethnicities excluding Europeans and then compare the respective results and come up with a conclusion?

Otherwise, it's just a hasty conclusion with unsound methodologies employed in the process.
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noobermin 3912 days ago
Well, I did the reading for you, and the answer is no. The control was a Sierra Leonean and the test was a white American. Page 8 on the paper (click one of the links above).
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sp332 3912 days ago
However, they did not come to the "conclusion" that notNow accused them of coming to. "Behavioral measures are increasingly used to infer cross-national differences in social preferences or to assess aid effectiveness — our results suggest that we should be cautious in these uses."
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sp332 3912 days ago
Well I guess you could click through and find out?
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