The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)

Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by shard972 on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:01PM (#16526054)

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...

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.

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by OrganicMSG on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:06PM (#16530641)

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.

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