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Subject: RE: [huml-comment] Human Markup Language 1.0 considered harmful
The author of the blog would do well to consider how a very large percentage of the forms filled out for everyday transactions includes a field for "race". We did have a thread early on in the development of the primary considering this term which is normal for everyday communications but contentious in some scientific fields, particularly, anthropology. A "race" classification is easily discernible but sometimes inaccurate. As such, while it can be used in a codelist, interpretations of the value have to be left to the user of the term in the derived secondary. len From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] But, given the document at face value, I am concerned that the assertion of "nothing taken for granted" and self-assertion as a test of humanity are at best ingenuous. My demonstration is the supposition of "race" as a physical characteristic. And that it be describable (I hesitate to use the notion of description at all here) by a code.
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