What May Be a Problem with Racial Self-Identification for the Future

question 80

Multiple Choice

What may be a problem with racial self-identification for the future of medicine and pharmacogenomics (drugs tailored to suit one's genome) ?

• A) It may be linked to cultural associations.
• B) It may be defined by the possession of extreme physical traits.
• C) It may have traditional or historical bias.
• D) It may have a religious bias.
• E) Incorrect identification of ancestral background because of all of the above.

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Definitions:

Normal Model

A symmetric probability distribution around the mean, indicating that occurrences of data are more common close to the mean than far from it.

Snowfall

The precipitation of flakes of crystalline water ice from clouds.

Normal Model N(73,9.2)

A statistical representation of a normal distribution with a mean (average) of 73 and a standard deviation of 9.2.

Normal Model

A statistical representation where most occurrences happen around the central peak and probabilities for values decrease as they move away from the mean.