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Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
S. LaBonne (labonnes@csc.albany.edu)
1 Feb 1995 15:45:04 GMT
In article <3gmef3$63r@agate.berkeley.edu>,
<jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>labonnes@csc.albany.edu (S. LaBonne) wrote:
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>> Suppose the incidence is very high in Bavarians and Chinese, and very
>> low in Prussians. Shall we then classify Bavarians and Chinese as
>> belonging to one "race", and Prussians as belonging to another?
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>No. Let us drop the term "race", and keep the data on Bavarians
>and Chinese. The data are valid, and possibly useful. If it makes
>you happy, drop the term "race" from African Americans, and keep
>the data.
Amen. Now, jerrybro, just hold that thought!
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Steve LaBonne *********************** (labonnes@csc.albany.edu)
"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." - Wallace Stevens
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