Talk:Anthropometry

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would it not be helpful to have a direct link to some Anthropometrics data?

  • Most of the data is not terribly interesting, in my opinion. Data looks like data, in the end — I'm not sure how lists of numbers would be useful. Unless you had something else in mind? --Fastfission 19:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not a pseudoscience

I have removed the link to the pseudoscience caegory. It is not stated as a pseudoscience in the text, although it has been abused in the guise of science, which is different. Phrenology, which also relied on body measurement, was a pseudoscience. Verne Equinox 18:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Anthropometrics is not just about measurement of body but it has got a large importance in Architecture...In designing and in study of evolution. (User: Manjeeta)4:19,23 June 2006 (IOE)

[edit] Not a pseudoscience?

Added pseudoscience category also couple of words of "pseudoscience" in the article, a reference is also given.

Manjunatha (29 Aug 2006)

I would suggest that only the topics listed in the Pseudoscience article should be included as pseudoscience, or else find some verifiable published research according to WP:RS. --apers0n 13:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The only parts of it which are pseudoscience are the belief that you can figure out someone's personality traits or intelligence or "criminality" from the shape of their face or body. The measurement of people in and of itself isn't pseudoscience, of course, nor is it necessarily pseudoscience to use it for identification purposes (though some implementations of it in the past have been quite poor—i.e. Bertillon's system had many failings). --Fastfission 15:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
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