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I'm saying I can invent races on the fly, then find genetic differences that would appear to back me up. Is like playing numerology with a large enough book, yo

I'm saying I can invent races on the fly, then find genetic differences that would appear to back me up. Is like playing numerology with a large enough book, you can always find patterns. Finding patterns however doesn't mean that black and white as racial qualifiers are anything other than a highly inaccurate classification system that is used to align skin colour with social class, and which doesn't even fall within the gamut of actual skin tone. Is patently obvious where black and white came from as concepts, if you look through history rather than biology. While I do not expect to win this argument on nomenclature within the next fifty years, I do hold out some hope over the next century. edit - Also, am British, the use of a sarcasm tag is offensive to our people. Probably for genetic reasons.

shard972 9y ago
I think you need to read up on some the cluster analysis work that has been done over the last decade. Your statement about inventing races and assigning them to people isn't true. I linked this in another comment but ill mention it again, this article makes a comprehensive argument for race while linking off to the supporting papers instead of just me shotgunning a bunch of papers at you. http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329/ http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329... Look under the heading "Genetic Clusteredness" and you find a summary of papers such as Bamshad 2003 which explain how they can conclude a strong correlation between self reported races and objective measured genetics via SNPs.
- OrganicMSG 9y ago
  I hereby invent the race classifier of tongue-dexterity. Society consists of those who can and cannot roll their tongue and there is a high priesthood of the folks who can bend their tongue into a 'W'. It is just as arbitrary and capricious, but has at least one benefit I can think of over classifying people by latitude adaptation.

shard972 9y ago

I think you need to read up on some the cluster analysis work that has been done over the last decade. Your statement about inventing races and assigning them to people isn't true. I linked this in another comment but ill mention it again, this article makes a comprehensive argument for race while linking off to the supporting papers instead of just me shotgunning a bunch of papers at you. http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329/ http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329... Look under the heading "Genetic Clusteredness" and you find a summary of papers such as Bamshad 2003 which explain how they can conclude a strong correlation between self reported races and objective measured genetics via SNPs.

OrganicMSG 9y ago
I hereby invent the race classifier of tongue-dexterity. Society consists of those who can and cannot roll their tongue and there is a high priesthood of the folks who can bend their tongue into a 'W'. It is just as arbitrary and capricious, but has at least one benefit I can think of over classifying people by latitude adaptation.