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Not debating nor disputing but how do you do demographics then? Sometimes important in medical applications for instance. “Asian” is particularly useless. Include Caucasoid Indians and Mongoloid Chinese, Japanese. Always lumpers and splitters, then we end up with 57 genders

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Not debating nor disputing but how do you do demographics then?"

Debate and/or dispute are perfectly fine with me.....

How would I do demographics? By area, and the smaller being more granular so detail leaps out. And by behavior, such as sexual practices or buying patterns and the like. The root 'demos' means people, after all. How does a group of people behave? Some prosper with little. And some fail with a lot. Some get sicker than others.Asking why is a reasonable question. So a group will tell much of itself, unless too granular or too diffuse.

Watson's remark was about "testing," and that was enough to make liberals soil themselves. Ditto with Murray and others.

But attempting to use skin color is foolish, given a Clarence Thomas and a Ketanji Brown Jackson sit only chairs apart, but are worlds apart in terms of politics. And good sense.

Best wishes.