Craniometry in Anthropology

So I stumbled across an article on Vedda/Wanniyalaeto, an indigenous people in Sri Lanka.

Under the anthropology section, the bulk of the section cites a 2013 craniometric study by Raghavan et al.

While I've studied genetics, I have no knowledge about anthropology. But anything relating to measuring of skulls send off warning signals in my brain.

Is there any basis in science and anthropology for craniometry and the claims made on the basis of craniometry? link to the article

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Or Craniometry or whatever they call it imgur.com/a/7wT9cHa
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Lmao. If someone made this up I would have accused them of being too obvious. The craniometry gang never sleeps twitter.com/ASankin/statuโ€ฆ
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There are many people today that are skeptical of pseudosciences. How common would it have been for people to look at phrenology, craniometry and racial theory as hogwash?

Basically as we look at pseudoscience and pseudohistory today and say ''bullshit'' there's no evidence, would there have been a small minority of people who thought the same of the widely held beliefs and intellectual thinking of the day (18th century - early 20th century)? I know Thomas Paine was a prominent thinker of the 18th century who rejected the majority of conservative views at the time, and in today's terms he'd be seen as a ''far-left'' progressive, and there were a few who rejected eugenics later on.

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Ah yes, of course the well known scientific field of study, phren- I mean.. Craniometry.
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it's CRANIOMETRY not PHRENOLOGY twitter.com/EPoe187/statuโ€ฆ
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Swiss have Khazarian Brachycephalic Craniometry Cephalometry from Central Asia Mongolia youtube.com/watch?v=Cp_o5โ€ฆ
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Word of the Day - Aug 24 craniometry

craniometry

noun: The measurement of skulls; the topographical relations ascertained by such measurements.

noun: the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts

Word of the day Provided by : wordnik

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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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Nassim Taleb's nuclear take on a paper investigating human biases

Nassim Taleb, who you may know from the fact that he has written a book once, also has a YouTube channel, where he talks about probability theory, statistics, and occasionally fails to understand IQ. While his takes on IQ have been addressed in a variety of places, Taleb also isn't beneath commenting on other psychological issues. The topic of this post is a video where he takes on a very brief lit-review like summary paper investigating human biases in judging character on the basis of facial appearance. The paper is rather short, only encompassing ~ 2 pages of text and 2 pages of images. You may get a sense of its content by the abstract:

>Our success and well-being, as individuals and societies, depend on our ability to make wise social decisions about important interpersonal matters, such as the leaders we select and the individuals we choose to trust. Nevertheless, our impressions of people are shaped by their facial appearances and, consequently, so too are these social decisions. This article summarizes research linking facial morphological traits to important social outcomes and discusses various factors that moderate this relationship.

While this may seem like your standard gen psych paper, Taleb is concerned with two elements in particular:

  1. He compares it to craniometry and implies that it is either racist itself or at least fueling racism.
  2. He takes issue with the methodology.

We will address both points individually.

The racism take

I do not want to spend too much time on this one as Taleb himself doesn't seem to know how it logically follows. At the very least, he doesn't bother explaining it to us. He merely makes the claim that it somehow fuels scientific racism. A few things to note:

  1. The paper makes no distinction between races. In fact, it doesn't group people into categories at all.
  2. The authors explicitly discuss the invalidity of facial features as a predictor of human traits/behavior and express their interest in mitigating these biases. Another quote from the paper:

>*The fact that

... keep reading on reddit โžก

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I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Pun intended.
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These aren't dad jokes...

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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