Talk:Race and ethnicity in Colombia

Lack of objectivity

The affirmation about hierarchy is not well defined nor has references. That is a simplification about the complexities of the ethnicity in Colombia 179.19.9.252 (talk) 04:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ResearchGate

Zaquezipe, you wrote here that "A test conducted by Research Gate concluded that...", but ResearchGate is a social media site and didn't conduct the study. The study appears to have been published in Mankind Quarterly, which is not a reliable source. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:37, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You do know that the other tests use mostly info from the paisa region, undercounting 80% of the entire country, therefore inaccurate as well. Even other Wikipedia pages use this exact cite. 2607:FB91:BD33:53AC:193:8:CC48:C175 (talk) 21:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read our article about Mankind Quarterly? You're citing a white supremacist journal (I presume without knowledge of that fact). See also Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources#Scholarly journals. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unsolicited third opinion

Zaquezipe, Cordless Larry, I've come here after the discussion at the {{WP:RS}. I love reading references. The disputed sentence reads: Public Library of Science (PLOS) genetic research determined that the average Colombian (of all races) has a mixture of European 62.5%, native Amerindian 27.4% , African 9.2% and East Asian 0.9%. That is not supported by the source. The paper was looking at the admixture of three backgrounds and the abstract says nothing about the population in general. In the Materials and Methods section they describe their subjects as a "convenience sample"; in all but Chile they used university students and staff. So the reference is not appropriate for saying anything about the percentages in the general population. However it is very appropriate to use for race and ethnicity in Columbia in general. But use the thesis values for the population-wide figures. They come from page 17 of the thesis. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:55, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, StarryGrandma! That makes the question of which is the more reliable source rather redundant. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]