Re: Are There Races?
(Duncan@drmac.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 02 Jan 97 11:27:09 GMT
In article <mbanetE3CvEA.LGC@netcom.com> mbanet@netcom.com
"David C. Waters" writes:
> Finally, the point is that variation and diversity exists within "races"
> to so much of an extent that the differences *between* "races" is trivial
> (at best).
It must be understood that for bell curves centred on different means,
the tails of the curves will overlap, so, naturally, for any *SINGLE* trait
there will be more variation within groups (grouped by *MULTIPLE* traits) than
between group means for that trait.
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D. MacMillan
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