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Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
Michael Andrew Turton (turtom@rebecca.its.rpi.edu)
30 Jan 1995 00:04:45 GMT
In article <3gh531$cua@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu>,
Ken Arromdee <arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>In article <3gd799$620@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>,
>David A. Johns <djohns@grove.ufl.edu> wrote:
>>Non sequitur. No one said that traits don't vary. The point is that
>>a racial classification system has to account for all people, not just
>>arbitrarily chosen groups.
>
>Untrue. If a classification system has some problem cases, it's still
>possible to make statements about the classified sets if these statements
>are about characteristics being more or less likely in each set, and thus
>do not have to apply to every member of the set.
>--
>Ken Arromdee (email: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
>
>"Communism is just one step on the long road from capitalism to capitalism."
> -- Russian saying
But we're not talking about "members of a set" Ken, we're talking
about *people*. And now, I'd like your classification system, please.
Mike
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