AI Recognises Race in Medical Images

Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by KittenInABox on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:12PM (#28528516)

One of the other things to point out is that race doesn't correlate all that well with genetics in humans. People who would be described as black have so much genetic diversity that there can be no reasonable argument that there's a genetic basis for their racial label. Certain health conditions or biological differences often have to make far more specific categories than race.

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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:26PM (#28534022)

Not sure why downvoted, this is correct. The rest of the world was populated by small (i.e. less genetically diverse) groups who came "out of Africa". So "Africans are more diverse genetically than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined"

https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/study-africans-mo...

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2018/07/19/genetic-diversity-in-africa...

there are "Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians" "and the genetic diversity in Eurasians is largely a subset of that in Africans, supporting the out of Africa model of human evolution"

https://www.genetics.org/content/161/1/269

The highest genetic diversity is actually among people who are small subgroups of "Africans" - Khoisan not Bantu.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6692

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24988-humanitys-forgo...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25471224/

So, genetically, just as you can't draw a line around "bony fishes" without also including land animals who are also descendants of bony fishes.

https://www.sciencealert.com/actually-there-is-no-such-thing...

Also, you can't genetically call "Africans" a well-defined sub-group of humans, excluding others.

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