It's interesting that despite trying to be highly sympathetic, the article still paints Goodman in a bad light, in my opinion. All Goodman can say is that race

It's interesting that despite trying to be highly sympathetic, the article still paints Goodman in a bad light, in my opinion. All Goodman can say is that race is a continuum, not a finite set. But so what? Self defined race is still highly correlated with genes, and hence phenotype (in this case, body dimensions), so why is self-defined race not a useful category? Anyone with any knowledge of statistics, probability or machine learning can see through Goodman's platitudes. Maybe left-leaning anthropologists have other reasons for disliking these uses of the concept of race, but they need to be more intellectually honest.