MIDUS participants were asked: "How well does the following describe you: sophisticated." Answers ranged from "not at all" (1) to "a lot" (4). Here are the means by race/ethnicity (sample size = 3,922):
Mean sophistication score
White 1.30
Black 1.74*
Amerindian 1.26
Asian 1.56
Mexican 1.38
*significantly higher than whites
Blacks are half of a standard deviation more sophisticated than whites.
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