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I've seen a few viral posts recently pushing the link between race and traits like IQ

But as genomic research advances, it’s getting clearer that race is probably more of a social construct than a genetic reality

The real story is how outdated ideas keep trying to shape society when we have better ways to inform the stories we tell.

I've seen a few viral posts recently pushing the link between race and traits like IQ

But as genomic research advances, it’s getting clearer that race is probably more of a social construct than a genetic reality

The real story is how outdated ideas keep trying to shape society when we have better ways to inform the stories we tell.

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/whats-real-about-race-rina-bliss

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Exactly, most of the credible research suggests it doesn’t make sense biologically. We need more ways to take the research and translate it into things people actually understand, otherwise older stories continue to prosper

Also interesting point on the European front. It’s not really aligned with my experience growing up in the UK and then living across Europe

Europe is more heterogeneous than the US, but I’d consider both systems rather similar at the core, stemming from the same origins

Have to also acknowledge that Europe invented eugenics. Feels like those ideas haven’t gone away, they’re just (like many things European) older, more refined, elegantly structured with a sophisticated facade

For example in France we see important ‘thinkers’ talk about “race as a reason”, from lofty detached positions. meanwhile the reality is stark, discrimination is clear and the state is comfortably colourblind as (you know) racial stats aren’t recorded. 

less visible ≠ less present

It’s completely wild to me, and so idiosyncratically American, that people even think of “races” among humans. If you went to Europe and asked people what “race” they belong to, they would look at you like you just landed from another planet.

The concept doesn’t make sense biologically speaking. There are neither races nor sub-species within Homo sapiens. The genetic diversity among humans is not only superficial, it’s clinal — meaning that it changes gradually over geographic space rather than forming distinct boundaries.

In fact, genetic differences within two random people sampled within any given population / ethnicity are *greater* than between the average of those two populations. (Maybe that’s what the article argues — I haven’t read it).

I understand the historical context as to why Americans started making that racial distinction (Native Americans, then slaves) — but in the 21st century this notion needs to die.

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


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have to stay updated with the bien and the mal

just read this and wow. i did not know this. meanwhile when i left twitter my feed was consistently filled with race supremacy type tweets from so many accounts.

We overlay our beliefs and preconceived notions always. Takes a strong person to suspend that and allow the data to speak for itself.  I look forward to the time when there is a trusted impartial ajudicator  (like a specially trained AI) that practically guarantees removal of human bias when analyzing large data sets