> What if shortfings tend to be drastically taller
What does it mean for shortfings to be dramatically taller? Are you saying that shortfings must transmit height along with finger length; some sort of race invariance? Or are you saying that most shortfings you meet are also tall?
If a black person is a pale as a white person, they're still considered black (and may share many other characteristics that many black people have.) If some of your shortfings have long fingers, does the distinction still make sense as a scientific category?
> the longfings are complaining that they're overrepresented in jumpball?
Is admission to jumpball determined by finger measuring, or through social factors?