In order to know that we would have to break down something like the India section into different castes, and see if there's a height difference within the group overall group that correlates with the subgroups.

But I get where you're coming from. When I saw this was in data is beautiful my instinct was a little bit of a shiver because it felt like this data is informative but data might be a little bit racist.

And I say that as a 188.8 cm tall person born way outside the selection period. This needs some Southern African indigenous people representation.

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Data can never be racist.
The decisions which data to collect, how to interpret it and how to act on it can all be racist.
But data is just numbers.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Selection bias plays a strong role in deciding what is racist and what isn't when it comes to data. P hacking and all that fun stuff too