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Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by Chris2048 on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:58PM (#39899252)
> more correctly determined by ancestry proximate to the region of the disease’s origin

Is the better metric just as easy to determine though? In other words, it may be a mere proxy to a "better" metric, but that means it's still correlative, and we can only abandon it if we have no better proxy.

Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by bugglebeetle on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:01PM (#39899273)
In most modern health care settings, yes.
Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by Chris2048 on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:17PM (#39899476)
You're saying we can determine ancestry proximatry genetically?