Azathoth123 comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Azathoth123 07 November 2014 06:23:59AM 0 points [-]

Part of the reason is that if you restrict to the population of the United States they are (more-or-less) a separate genetic cluster

Well, I wasn't restricting to the population of the United States.

Is the term "Hispanic" even used outside the US and places imitating the US?

My understanding is that gender is specifically used to refer to the socially constructed identities.

That's the claim made by "gender theorists". In practice it's used to refer to any sex differences they can claim to be socially constructed without seeming completely ridiculous. Nearly all of said differences are almost certainly largely biological.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 November 2014 07:51:30PM *  1 point [-]

Is the term "Hispanic" even used outside the US and places imitating the US?

It's used on the Survey (which is how this discussion ever sprang up in the first place) even though non-Americans also take it. (What will Spaniards pick? I'm gonna go check what they did last year... EDIT: three picked “White (non-Hispanic)”, one picked “White (Hispanic)” and one picked “Other”, so they mostly went by the de facto definition rather than the official one.)

(IIRC I once classified myself as “Latin” on some kind of survey because I assumed it referred to anyone with Romance-speaking ancestry.)

Comment author: Azathoth123 09 November 2014 05:09:44AM 2 points [-]

It's used on the Survey

Because Yvain is imitating US usage.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2014 04:07:22PM 2 points [-]

I know. But people outside the US also take the survey, so your “if you restrict to the population of the United States” upthread doesn't apply.