Twenty years ago, American Board of Internal Medicine stopped giving ethnicity to the make-believe patients in their board exam multiple choice questions, as that may "reinforce stereotypes of race as a biological construct". They are now putting ethnicity back into question stems, as it "may promote better understanding of the impact of social determinants".#
Reductio ad absurdum is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction. It took ABIM two decades to reach the end of the opposite scenario, when they could have just as easily played everything out in their heads back in the early 2000s.#
Twenty years ago, American Board of Internal Medicine stopped giving ethnicity to the make-believe patients in their board exam multiple choice questions, as that may "reinforce stereotypes of race as a biological construct". They are now putting ethnicity back into question stems, as it "may promote better understanding of the impact of social determinants".#
Reductio ad absurdum is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction. It took ABIM two decades to reach the end of the opposite scenario, when they could have just as easily played everything out in their heads back in the early 2000s.#