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And they didn't consider that their sample was already biased in favor of survivors? Didn't the Inca and their predecessors dispose of their non-nobility dead m
by DrScump 8y ago
And they didn't consider that their sample was already biased in favor of survivors? Didn't the Inca and their predecessors dispose of their non-nobility dead mostly via air burial and burning?
- maxerickson 8y agoWhat bias are you proposing? That they ennobled the survivors?
- Y_Y 8y ago> A plane crashed on the border or US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? You don't bury survivors, and you give better medical treatment to nobles.
- maxerickson 8y agoYou bury them eventually, which is the pertinent consideration if you are worried about burning the bodies destroying evidence. That people with higher status received better treatment wouldn't really impact assessing how advanced their technique was, it would just show it at its best (which is sort of the thing being assessed, what sort of outcomes did their knowledge enable).
- DrScump 8y agoNo, that nobles were more likely to get the best surgeons, if non-nobles got surgery at all. Remember, human sacrifice was common[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#South_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#South_America