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> “race” as most people understand it, and “race” as an objective, genetic categorization, are two extremely different things. Yet they seem to match in 99.86%
by sampo 9y ago
> “race” as most people understand it, and “race” as an objective, genetic categorization, are two extremely different things.
Yet they seem to match in 99.86% of cases:
"Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
- thaumasiotes 9y agoYou can't go around relying on studies with only n = 3636.
- mikeash 9y agoThe fact that they’re analyzing African Americans and not anybody currently living in Africa makes me quite suspicious of the general applicability of these results. The former group has mixed a lot more than the latter as a consequence of their tragic history.
- UncleMeat 9y agoThe problem is that they are using the existing boundaries. We'd construct different labels if we started with genetics.