Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in proper lighting conditions

Re:Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in prope... by dotancohen on Friday September 06, 2024 @04:38AM (#41464182)

  > I mean the categories that have been selected, are absolutely ridiculous. There isn't just one "black", as much as there is one "white".

Alright, so American popular conception of race is incorrect, not the concept of race as a whole. In my country we do not refer to black and white, we use the names that each racial group calls themselves (Beduin, Arab, Ethiopian, Moroccan, etc).

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Re:Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in prope... by jampekka on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:26AM (#41464447)

I think OP's point is that it's arbitrary and context dependent where the line between races is drawn. It also includes non-genetic cultural traits, as in your example.

Should a different eye color detemine a race demarcation? Is e.g. religion a factor in detemining a race?

The examples you listed are probably better described as ethnic groups, which are not genetically detemined, not necessarily mutually exclusive and quite vaguely defined.

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Re:Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in prope... by dotancohen on Friday September 06, 2024 @12:03PM (#41467335)

I probably conflate race and ethnic group. In Hebrew we use the word גזע gez'a for both. What exactly is the difference?

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