wedrifid comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elund 04 November 2014 05:56:26AM -2 points [-]

Are you sure doctors (of the medical kind) agree?

My point is that the human population doesn't divide neatly into discrete categories called "races". There are of course genetic differences, but human variation is a continuum. The way people decide boundaries between races is an arbitrary social one.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 November 2014 01:39:44PM 1 point [-]

The way people decide boundaries between races is an arbitrary social one.

Beware The Fallacy Of The <Kinda Brownish>.

Comment author: Elund 05 November 2014 07:14:40AM 0 points [-]

You're ignoring the part where I said human variation is a continuum. The fallacy of grey is where people deny the existence of the continuum.

Also, I did mention evidence about people's varying definitions of the "white race" to illustrate how people do in fact use arbitrary social reasons to decide the boundaries between races.