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Race as a cultural and social construct absolutely exist, and one can perform scientific analysis using this as a basis.

Segmenting individuals into groups on the basis of race shows a large number of very real differences with irrefutable statistical significance.

I don't personally think that these are due to Intrinsic genetic properties, but that doesn't mean that there are no real and scientifically verifiable differences that break along racial lines.

It's kind of like comparing Californians to Nevadans. You don't have to think that there is a non-conditional difference in the groups to explore the apparent or manifested differences in a scientifically rigorous way. Dividing the groups by the border on a map may be arbitrary from some perspectives, but completely relevant from other perspectives



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