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> a pretty rough but decent way How, exactly, would we know it's a decent way? I suspect it's not really about "race" which is full of wrong meanings; it's ju
by tpm 2mo ago
> a pretty rough but decent way
How, exactly, would we know it's a decent way?
I suspect it's not really about "race" which is full of wrong meanings; it's just that "race" in the US mostly also means genetically close populations, like black people originally coming through slave trade from one of a few places in Africa and therefore sharing some similar traits. But if you scaled research to a representative sample of all "black" or "asian" (etc) people, any advantage this gives you would evaporate
- johnsmith1840 2mo agoI mean a black looking person complains about a problem and you instantly can guess that because he's black and something is more common you can come to a conculsion faster. It's not "science" but don't doctors do this stuff like every single day?
- tpm 2mo ago> he's black and something is more common you can come to a conculsion faster Certainly very fast, but is that conclusion correct? Is it really more common for "black" people, and even if so does that apply in this case? I have my doubts, having a bit of an experience with how doctors operate.
- dyauspitr 2mo agoWhat exactly is black though? Is it just dark skin or is it specifically those with African genetics? Because you have dark skinned people in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, India, etc. Those people are very genetically dissimilar from Africans. In fact, in many cases, more dissimilar than someone from Africa and someone from Europe.