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Originally Posted by roachboy
but how would you go about that?
simply exclude the problem at the level of method?
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I'm not sure what you mean.
Whether or not the categories are problematic seems to be independent from whether or not the categories predict anything.
I think self-identification as black (or any other ethnicity) is more than simply internalizing the stereotypes associated with that category. I think that there likely social, economic, and cultural factors associated with that self-identification that contribute to the social outcomes I alluded to. Beyond that, there may be biological differences associated with the clines/races. What such differences are, what they mean, and whether you could ever adequately establish that those differences are biological in origin are separate questions.