Somali vs Black/African American Cognitive Disability

The statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 99,318,466 people shows a moderate positive correlation between the proportion of Somalis and percentage of population with cognitive disability in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.486 and weighted average of 19.8%. Similarly, the statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 565,879,881 people shows a moderate positive correlation between the proportion of Blacks/African Americans and percentage of population with cognitive disability in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.416 and weighted average of 19.0%, a difference of 4.2%.

In terms of cognitive disability, the demographic groups most similar to Somalis are Immigrants from Cabo Verde (19.9%, a difference of 0.16%), Immigrants from Congo (19.7%, a difference of 0.56%), Immigrants from Somalia (20.0%, a difference of 0.89%), Immigrants from Zaire (19.4%, a difference of 2.2%), and Tohono O'odham (19.3%, a difference of 2.9%). Similarly, the demographic groups most similar to Blacks/African Americans are Immigrants from Saudi Arabia (19.1%, a difference of 0.13%), Senegalese (19.0%, a difference of 0.29%), Lumbee (19.1%, a difference of 0.47%), Sudanese (18.9%, a difference of 0.84%), and Puerto Rican (19.2%, a difference of 0.95%).