a) its full of shit.
b) the co-relation is so weak that it is hardly statistically relevant.

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I always thought it was a given that this theory was true.

Just because the genetic variation between two people of the same origin is identical to the genetic variation between a guy from china and a guy from mexico doesn't mean that this theory is bogus, obviously.

Post edited at 10:41 pm on May 16, 2008 by medjai

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hmm...I guess I'm about 80% white but my white comes from countries that aren't considered the whitest of the lot. Wonder what what means. Oh well.

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How about do an actual study and find 100 random people who have parents of the same general ethnicity (white white, black black, hispanic hispanic, asian asian), and 100 random hybrids and take pictures and then make an implicit test that just asks "very good looking" "not very good looking" and have people go through the bitch and see who scores higher or whatever. At least then you could fall on some actual research for claims like this.

I don't understand how people are so stupid that they don't think a guy with a family of all white people has less racial variation than a guy with a white mom and a black dad. If anything, the white guy probably has more racial variation. I guess people don't realize that skin tone is rather useless in determining if someone is a cross breed.

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O` tru apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick.
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