"I wonder what our 'racial' categories would look like if people treated these groupings as a statistical problem, rather than some sort of given natural phenom

"I wonder what our 'racial' categories would look like if people treated these groupings as a statistical problem, rather than some sort of given natural phenomenon." The outcome would no doubt have a lot in common with the ugly and ill-fitting suit made for Gulliver by the tailors of Laputa, who used quadrants, rules, and compasses rather than a simple tape measure.