Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-06-11 10:02:41 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 72E940A0613BE0C6EA5EECB3F444462071B64CA62B2B41F09242514D513B1855
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NNN - Community note is wrong. While one may argue that gender is a social construct, skeletal remains are often gendered by, among others, differences in bone structure by archeologists and forensic teams to determine the identity of the deceased. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/wibskeletonmaleorfemalefinal.pdf https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2019/10/23/researchers-accurately-estimate-the-sex-of-skeletons-based-on-elbow-features/#:~:text=Sex%20is%20typically%20determined%20by,of%20the%20incident%20(explosive). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6344795/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/14/wonder-woman-lives-viking-warrior-skeleton-identified-as-female-128-years-after-its-discovery/
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