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I don't really know what a social construct is.

What is a scientific category vs a non-scientific category?

And I don't think every item needs to fall neatly into a category for that category to be useful.

If I say 86% of african americans have a hypersensitivity to warfarin which means that if they were given the same dose as a white person they'd have a much increased risk of stroke.

Clearly in the previous sentence the distinction of ethnicity is useful and the information makes people safer.



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