"Jack May" enscribed:
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> "Disgruntled Customer" wrote in message
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> > And those strengths and weaknesses are distributed randomly throughout the
> > population, occurring equally likely regardless of race, color, creed,
> > country of origin, or previous state of servitude. That means if a company
> > is being fair the distribution of promotions will show no bias towards
> > race, color, creed, etc.
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> We know for a fact that the strengths and weaknesses are not randomly
> distributed and can not be expected to be randomly distributed unless it can
> be proven that genetics is a lie and genetics can have no effects on people.
Oddly you got it wrong. Well, perhaps it's not all that odd. Mutations occur at random. Favorable mutations do a sort of drunk man stagger around the gene pool increasing their density over time. Homo sapiens tend to be exogamous and anti-incestuous, speeding the random churning of DNA to quickly propagate favorable mutations around the world.
> The genetic basis of effect on all aspects of human characteristics is a
> widely studied area with many papers being published in the Scientific
You need to do some more reading. Genetics confirms more than ever how connected humans are. And how people that look similar are often a greater taxonomic distance than people you would classify as different races. Genetics confirms so called races are transient concentrations of a few genes with smooth transitions between different peaks, and little correlation among the different characteristics that make up so-called races. Not surprising considering the human genome is made up of 46 independent packets (which are being split and re-spliced into interesting new combinations).
> You may have noticed that a drug was approved for blacks only because it was
> only effective for a particular genetic characteristics of blacks. Should
Again you need to do more reading. Elementary results from Mendel show that if a gene does not advantage or disadvantage an individual, it tends to retain the same density in a population over time. Since it's improbable that the same mutation occurs twice, a neutral mutation tends to propagate very slowly to other populations. Darwin showed that if a gene is advantageous or disadvantageous, its density and propagation change quickly.
The mutation that protected from Black Death increased its density in England; then when the plague subsided, it became neutral and retained similar density in various populations. Now that gene is advantageous again, and showing up in populations around the world. English and their descendants still have a higher advantage, but that is disappearing.
> So would it be racist to produce that blacks only drug to reduce hear
> attacks, or would it be racist to not produce the drug and let more blacks
> die of heart attacks?
Transient correlations occur because a mutation occurs in one individual and her descendants. However favorable mutations spread on their chromosome independently of the other 45 chromosomes. Genes selected for quickly lose any correlation to unrelated and unlinked genes. Since among humans (apparently excluding your family) characteristics like intelligence and stamina and strength are selected for, and their advantage tends to be propagated around the world quickly.
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