[dagw]

I'm not convinced that statistics can be racist

Statistics don't exist in a vacuum, nor are they a part of nature. Every piece of statistics is the result of a person or a group of people grabbing a subset of some data, applying a collection of mathematical transformations to that data and interpreting the results. Every step of the process, from what data you chose to look and how you chose to collect that data, to what transformations you choose to apply, to how you choose to interpret the numbers that come out of those transformations is a choice a person has to make and as such is very much subject to conscious and subconscious biases.

[mr_overalls]

That's why we have peer review. Are you saying that we should basically discard science because experimental design or statistical analysis can contain errors?