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

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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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.