Thread: Humans vary biologically, but race is a social construct

Originally Posted by khh

While it's true that the "typical Asian" would fit very few people exactly, a randomly chosen Asian would (presumably) have a higher correlation with the "typical Asian", than would a randomly chosen Scandinavian, or Native American, or whatever. The point isn't to build a model that encompasses everyone exactly.

The point is that we're better off erring on the side of under-emphasizing race--the concept's explanatory power and utility--than over-emphasizing it, because there's ultimately not much to it.