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How would a forensic anthropologist that does anthropometry deal with the accusation that they
are practicing pseudoscience?
Solution
Anthropometry signifies the measurement of human individual. It is tool of anthropology.
Science has no absolute truth. It begins from an observation and may contribute to a greater
story. These observations may be changed or removed by other observations wjich implies that
the greater story is not fixed but changing. Alphonso Bertillon started anthropometry who
believed that people could be identified by measurement of specific body parts. Human skull
measurement was thought to indicate brain size and thus, intelligence. It was proven that white
people had bigger skull which signifies more intelligence while black people had smaller skulls
thus lesser intelligence. The societal acceptance of science has now become problematic in this
case. The pseudoscienctific utilisation of anthropometry as an evidence for racial hierarchy
helped influence the racial discrimination.
In the early19th and 20th century anthropometry was regarded as a pseudoscience which was
mainly used to classify potential criminals from facial characteristics.

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How would a forensic anthropologist that does anthropometry deal wit.pdf

  • 1. How would a forensic anthropologist that does anthropometry deal with the accusation that they are practicing pseudoscience? Solution Anthropometry signifies the measurement of human individual. It is tool of anthropology. Science has no absolute truth. It begins from an observation and may contribute to a greater story. These observations may be changed or removed by other observations wjich implies that the greater story is not fixed but changing. Alphonso Bertillon started anthropometry who believed that people could be identified by measurement of specific body parts. Human skull measurement was thought to indicate brain size and thus, intelligence. It was proven that white people had bigger skull which signifies more intelligence while black people had smaller skulls thus lesser intelligence. The societal acceptance of science has now become problematic in this case. The pseudoscienctific utilisation of anthropometry as an evidence for racial hierarchy helped influence the racial discrimination. In the early19th and 20th century anthropometry was regarded as a pseudoscience which was mainly used to classify potential criminals from facial characteristics.