ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Foramen Magnum, Anthropometry, General Idea
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Put things in numbers so agreement on measurement is easy quantitative analysis. How you did the measurements, experiments, and include the how-to-do so someone else can replicate: craniometry show superiority of white european men through solid number facts. No conclusion, an assumption, now i will prove it to you. Idea that smart people have bigger brains and bigger heads; stupid people have smaller brains and heads so measure people"s heads. Apriority data will provide with what people already know to be true; if data doesn"t meet up with expectation excuses or even fake data. Research in function of brain during his era & general idea between frontal and posterior brain. Anterior brain genu language; cognition; problem solving / posterior brain - splenium. Physician and amateur craniologist show superiority of white over black and men over women ;; more of brain would be given to genu in whites and men.
