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