That is just one sample. One would have to question where it was gathered, what was the social class of the people who participated and if it was done on the island or the U.S. of A. There are many samples with varying degrees of admixture available from sources such as 23andme, dnatribes, gedmatch.com, etc,. The average PR on dnatribes admixture resutls for Puertoricans yielded the following results: scored 9% Sub Saharan, 13% Native American and 78% West Eurasian. Other samples in gedmatch yield higher west eurasian. I score a bit higher west eurasian and my Y dna is related to Sephardic Jews from Spain. I am as common an islander as it gets and, truth be told, our scores are significantly more caucasoid than most Latin American countries.( I live between PR and Spain, my fianceé is Castillian, and nobody ever knows I am not Spanish until I open my mouth.)That will change though with the nearly 400,000 dominicans currently living here. Our racial diversity and heterogenuity does not have anything to do with failing grades, iq’s or anything of the sort though. It has more to do with colonialism, corruption in the framework of governance institutions and poor child rearing, also a partial a consequence of previously mentioned considerations. I see racism is still alive and well in the US of A. For further discussion on Puertorican genomes contact me at [email protected], or visit abf anthropology forums.

Most of us from the middle class and higher classes have always studied in private schools. My SAT scores were significantly higher than the average so called white american. Yes, we do have a significant amount of the population that tests poorly on standardized excercises, and we need a complete overhaul of the Department of Education. However, this is just a partial representation of what we are. I am pretty sure that the IQ of the average catholic private school student is on par with the average so called white american. I mean, there is a lot of significant empirical data that shows how UPR Mayaguez is basically a top source for recruiting engineers (Military Industrial Complex, Public and Private Utilities Corporations), and that students from UPR Humacao, as well as UPR Rio Piedras, serve the food industry (microbiologists), the biomedic and bioengineering industry, as well as the pharmaceuticals sector. First we must deal with growing inequality in order to fix the public education system. That implies dealing with a generalized corrupt framework of governance institutions. It is lovely to see the subtle racism in the comments of anglos though.