RE: [huml-comment] PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-race

[cognite@zianet.com]

At 09:26 AM 02-12-2002 -0600, you wrote:
>From WordNet, second usage:
> 
>race -- (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some
biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races
of human beings")
> 
>One can say it is an attribution of belief, and add that it is based on
observable characteristics whose sources in genetic 
>properties is unproven.  There are physical characteristics that are
observable and can be used to apply the codelist 
>value, but the user is warned that further interpretations of such
codelists should be determined strictly or clearly documented 
>as vague.   The dominant applications are statistical, not genetic and
individual.
> 
>len

Being non-objective as well as prejudicial, this term thus merits being
dropped from huml Physical Descriptor primaries and  relegated to possible
user-developed secondaries, with a warning that its usage may entail
problems of vagueness and poor communication.

SC