Great summary by @gcbias.bsky.social on some of the issues with ancestry and self-identified ethnicity. I'm curious to see responses to the points being raised and the points raised are very rich for philosophers of science to reflect upon #PhilSci
Reposted from Graham Coop
The All of Us paper is rightly being criticized for its UMAP figure, which suggests an overly discrete view of human variation—a problem that is compounded by colouring the plot with self-identified race and then omitting the “self-identified” from the title & legend. 1/n

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