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Maarten's point may have been different (more "why do journals make people fill out burdensome forms just to peer review a paper") but this brought up a separate question that periodically burbles up in my mind:
In most research studies that I've worked on (all in USA), race and ethnicity are collected in this way. There's an "ethnicity" question that asks "Hispanic" or "non-Hispanic" and then a "race" question which usually includes some variant of White, Black, Asian, etc...
I'm legitimately just curious: can someone tell me the historical origins of this? It's common in the research studies that I have worked on - nearly every study has an "ethnicity" and "race" question formatted like this - but it seems...I don't know, just weird.
And probably confusing to people from outside the USA when they encounter an "ethnicity" question that simply asks "Hispanic" or "non-Hispanic"
