lessdazed comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong
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One (more) reason to be uncomfortable with such an argument: "black" doesn't carve nature at its joints.
(Whereas, relevantly for such arguments, "poor" does - though I believe that arguing that way leads down the path that has been called "reference class tennis".)
That's not too important. If I go to my closet and pull out twenty items of clothing at random, and designate those group A, and designate the rest group B, if I know what is in each group I can still make predictions about traits of random members of either group.