4 ms·
This claim relies on us being able to reliably sex skeletons. What is the false positive rate? How accurate are we in archaeology where the skeleton has been un
by TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago
This claim relies on us being able to reliably sex skeletons. What is the false positive rate? How accurate are we in archaeology where the skeleton has been underground for a long time?
- dignati 8y agoI was under the impression that they later confirmed his sex as female using the DNA sample
- elmolino89 8y agoIf you have a pelvis or even a sacral bone recognizing typical male from female is trivial. How many false positive errors can be made? No idea, but if your bones during several years are bathed in a sex hormones cocktails different from what your sex chromosomes are indicating, then on a body plan level you are not what chromosomes are saying. It is debatable if such mix up is a classification error.