How does genius pick songs for mixes?

Generally, Genius works really well with popular stuff but then you pick a World song or a Jazz song and hello! All **** breaks loose.
For example - I pick Allen Toussaint's "Long, Long Journey" and the next song in the line-up is Missy Elliott "Work It." The only music similar to Amaral is apparently Latin or any World (Ana Gabriel, Juanes, Angelique Kidjo, Cesaria Evora, Sergio Mendes, Seu Jorge, etc). The best 'mix' I ever got though was with Dusty Springfield - Metallica, White Zombie, Feeder, Elastica and one Dionne Warwick song. Wow.
How does Genius work? Does it really look at other user's music selection and decide, "well, those artists are black so they can go together. They speak a different language so they can go together?" Anyone know how to improve the system?

I'm also curious about the Genius Mixes too. It seems to create Mixes only based on my sync'd songs; not my entire library. I just want to make sure this is how Genius is supposed to work or if there are configuration settings for it.

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What does the Touch base the Genius Playlists on? Does it look for other songs in the same genre?

On one level, I think I know. On another level, I can only guess (I think its a good guess).
What I have noticed is that the Genius makes connections between artists and band they once played in, for example: Blind Faith and Eric Clapton and Cream and Derek and the Dominoes. It places music in genres, Blues, Rock .... I believe that genius also dates music: "the 50's" and "the 60's".
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