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Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by fullshark on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:08PM (#16597274)
Who doesn’t think race is biological?

When people connect race and talents/abilities is when people get uncomfortable though for fairly obvious reasons. Which is likely how many will interpret this result (Race related to intelligence) and probably what you really wanted to say.

Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:35PM (#16597443)
> Who doesn’t think race is biological?

People that observe that “race” is a highly malleable concept (there isn't even a broad agreement on how many races there are) that evolves with social, demographic, and economic shifts in the culture whose views of race are examined.

Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by Yetanfou on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:23PM (#16597674)
In other words people who don't know the difference between race - a biological phenomenon - and ethnicity - a social phenomenon.
Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by dragonwriter on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:45AM (#16598692)
> In other words people who don't know the difference between race - a biological phenomenon - and ethnicity - a social phenomenon.

No, people who recognize that despite the conceit that race is a “biological concept”, the identification of race (both ascription to others and self-identified) has always been driven by the same sociological phenomon that drive ethnic identity, and that, in practice, the concept of race operates as simply a broader set of ethnic categories, which is why identification of what races exist and how people are identified as being in one race or another vary not only between cultures, but within the same cultures over time.

Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by burtness on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:08PM (#16598285)
Well its at very least contested whether its a biological phenomenon. Its certainly not a genetic phenomenon and hasn't been treated as such since the mid-twentieth century
Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by c8d3f7b49897918 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:49PM (#16597778)
Ethnicity is almost always a biological phenomenon as well.

Race and ethnicity are simply larger and smaller group categorizations of humans, both with reasonably accurate biological tests.

Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by spicymaki on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:31PM (#16597417)
Well do you go by the American definition of race, do you go by the Brazilian color scale, or something else? In the US you are considered black if you have at least one black ancestor. Why not the other way around? Race in terms of biological definition is not consistent or coherent. There is also a lot of genetic variation within socially classified races.