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The program's poor performance in the analyses in which the test specimen's source population was excluded from the reference sample suggests that it cannot be relied on to assign an unidentified specimen to a closely related population in the absence of its own group. Because Fordisc's reference datasets contain fewer than 30 populations, the chances that an unidentified specimen's group will be represented in them are low. Given this, and the fact that complete crania are uncommon in archaeological and forensic contexts, there is reason to believe that Fordisc will only rarely identify the ancestry of an unidentified specimen. In fact, Fordisc may be even less useful than our results suggest...
The program's poor performance in the analyses in which the test specimen's source population was excluded from the reference sample suggests that it cannot be relied on to assign an unidentified specimen to a closely related population in the absence of its own group. Because Fordisc's reference datasets contain fewer than 30 populations, the chances that an unidentified specimen's group will be represented in them are low. Given this, and the fact that complete crania are uncommon in archaeological and forensic contexts, there is reason to believe that Fordisc will only rarely identify the ancestry of an unidentified specimen. In fact, Fordisc may be even less useful than our results suggest...
The program's poor performance in the analyses in which the test specimen's source population was excluded from the reference sample suggests that it cannot be relied on to assign an unidentified specimen to a closely related population in the absence of its own group. Because Fordisc's reference datasets contain fewer than 30 populations, the chances that an unidentified specimen's group will be represented in them are low. Given this, and the fact that complete crania are uncommon in archaeological and forensic contexts, there is reason to believe that Fordisc will only rarely identify the ancestry of an unidentified specimen. In fact, Fordisc may be even less useful than our results suggest...
