The New York Times published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women and manufacturing at Apple.
  • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    20 days ago

    The use of “race science” in this headline has been bugging me and I only just realized why. Questionable race science would be claiming that e.g. asian women think in some particularly useful way, or any other specific claim about race that is hard to prove. But it’s actually quite easy to show asian women have small hands, I assume – at least, it seems to me like asian women do tend to have much smaller hands than men of other races. This is not the dubious claim. The dubious claim is whether those smaller hands are useful or not.

    I am not really sure what to make of this, I’m still grappling with this one. Just thought I’d share my scattered thoughts.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        19 days ago

        To be clear, you’re saying that asian women typically having smaller hands is dubious? I have to double-check because I’m astonished anyone doubts this.

        • zloubida@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          19 days ago

          From the article :

          For one thing, it’s not even clear that the claim that Chinese women have small fingers is even true. Research on global hand size is lacking, but one study found that the average Chinese person has a hand size approximately equal to that of the average German. An analysis of hand size around the world, though it didn’t include China, found that even the largest average differences in women’s hand size between countries was negligible.