Comments on: The results confirmed the integrity of the self-described ancestry of these individuals https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-results-confirmed-the-integrity-of-the-self-described-ancestry-of-these-individuals/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Szopen https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-results-confirmed-the-integrity-of-the-self-described-ancestry-of-these-individuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3565447 Szopen Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:48:46 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49239#comment-3565447 Actually I should say “completely arbitrary” instead of just “arbitrary”. There is some level of subjectiveness involved and the results are not clearcut, just as it’s hard to point out where exactly a sea ends and land begins, or where exactly lays the border between baltic sea and the ocean.

]]> By: Szopen https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-results-confirmed-the-integrity-of-the-self-described-ancestry-of-these-individuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3565444 Szopen Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:46:44 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49239#comment-3565444 Shocking thing is that there are still people not aware about this result and trying to argue that race divisions are arbitrary.

]]> By: Felix https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-results-confirmed-the-integrity-of-the-self-described-ancestry-of-these-individuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3565440 Felix Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:02:51 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49239#comment-3565440 Could you poke a pin in a globe at the epicenters of various “races” and find a pretty good racial match of the world’s peoples with linear interpolations from the epicenters? Jumps (AKA noticeable distinctions between “races”) would naturally happen over oceans or mountains or poles or deserts or whatnot … where there are no people.

]]> By: Bomag https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-results-confirmed-the-integrity-of-the-self-described-ancestry-of-these-individuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3565342 Bomag Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:06:29 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49239#comment-3565342 Can’t argue with this, but people do.

Counter-arguments come in two forms:

(1) From 50,000 feet, everyone looks the same.

(2) When we drill down to small details and try to find a sharp dividing line, it is all so messy and overlapping that we need to throw up our hands and announce that everyone is the same.

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