/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9460195
>>9460212
To conclude:

You can bitch about whether heuristics and conventions should be classified as scientific or not all day, it does not remove the usefulness and predictive value of the concept of race. When making political and economic decisions, it is the predictive value that matters not its scientific integrity - engineers calculate stresses in solids based on inaccurate continuum mechanics, and ballistic trajectories based on inaccurate newtonian mechanics. So long as the errors are statistically insignificant, you use the simplest model that will give you the result you want.

People who phenotypically express the traits associated with the west african and east african ancestral populations are statistically far more predisposed to sickle cell anemia, violent crime and lower test scores. These are real world results used to make real world decisions. If their ancestry is known, even more so. Your disagreement with this is based on entirely semantical and aethereal grounds and is frankly irrelevant.