Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?

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"Don Dale" <dale@princeton.edu> wrote:

>>[...] If within group
>>variation is greater than between group then there is SOMETHING WRONG
>>WITH THE WAY THE "GROUPS" ARE CONSTRUCTED.
>
>This is false. Consider that the time it takes for a man to run a mile is
>a random variable with a huge variance. Likewise, the time it takes for a
>woman to run a mile is also a random variable with a huge variance and a
>slightly higher mean than that for the men.

I think this confuses the issue. We don't place people into the groups "female"
and "male" on the basis of their mile times.

Ron Kephart
University of North Florida

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