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> The obvious fallacy is to conclude that all blacks are better sprinters. It is a question of semantics here. The general and a vague inferred claim is that "
by mynegation 15y ago
> The obvious fallacy is to conclude that all blacks are better sprinters.
It is a question of semantics here. The general and a vague inferred claim is that "Black people tend to be better sprinters than other races". If that means that "There exist black people that run better than any people of all other races", then this statement is verifiably true: just look at the Olympic charts. Now, if statement is that "If you pick up a random black person and put them in a race against a person of other race (no pun intended), black person is more likely to win" - it would be a logical fallacy to make that statement based just on the fact that Olympic winners in running are all black.