I pronounced on the Black Roman yesterday, so I am obliged to acknowledge being schooled by @caitlinrgreen today:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/895350086267547648 …
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Replying to @Billare @caitlinrgreen
The study Green sent you is a joke, it utilizes a program that nearly always gets terrible results.pic.twitter.com/KcwikGmkP1
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Replying to @crimkadid @Billare
No, it's not. Sophisticated multi-disciplinary study that uses two different methodologies+isotopes, also doesn't simply take results >
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> uncritically but compares them+looks at most likely instances, not borderlines. NB. v odd results often due to ref popn issues, I gather.
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Billare
FORDISC's repeatedly inaccurate results have led anthropologists to discourage its use: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/6/849.full …
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46/50 samples had oxygen/strontium values consistent with UK origin. 1 sample from a colder clime, 3 from warmer or more coastal areas.
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None of the 50 grew up in a climate as warm or dry as the Nile Valley. There were no African immigrants in that York sample.
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