A troll at Vox Day is denying that race is anything but a social construct.
I replied:
Clearly your eyes don’t work, otherwise I would show you this principal component analysis of gene clusters that shows clearly defined races –
and the accompanying logic and evidence –
A reader asks:
“Not that I’m disagreeing with anything you’re saying, but I have no idea how to interpret that .PNG. Can you explain that or provide a link to an explanation?”
As far as I understand, it’s a regression analysis of the human genome. “Principal components” is a statistical regression term. The explanation is the link I posted directly beneath the png link.
Regression allows one to find significant non-correlated variables in a statistical data set that determine your y variable(s). In this case, it’s the clusters of genes that define race.
Point being, race deniers attempt to appeal to dishonest rhetoric, bad/outdated science, and incompetently simplistic statistics to deny the genetic reality of race, when the truth is easily graspable in a single graphic.