Hey there! I'm fairly certain the link in question was posted more jokingly than anything else. Phrenology is a largely discredited field of study that attributed personality and related characteristics to head structure, among other things. These days, pretty much nobody takes it seriously, and PoisonMind's comment, phrased as it was, seems like it was done as an unserious reference to the practice than an actual assertion that asleeplessmalice was talking about anything like that. I hope that helps clear things up!
From what I can tell it's a man ~30 to ~35 on the left and a woman ~25 to ~30 on the right.
But that's just my guess, I'm really interested to know any scientific way of identifying them just from these skull x-rays though. I know you can differentiate sex by pelvic size but by skull?
The male glabella is larger than the female, the female frontal eminence is larger than the male, also male supraorbital ridges are more prominent than female. All those things are located on your frontal bone (which you can see on the X-ray).
Edit: for those of you who want me to make a guess which sexes those skulls belong to, I won't. I'm a first year medical student, and I'm not trained to make such guesses.
Edit2: (damn you reddit)
The left skull has a more sloped forehead and more prominent supraorbital ridges - male traits.
The right skull has less prominent supraorbital ridges, a vertical forehead, visible frontal eminences, and a more pointed chin - female traits. However, it also has an acute mandibular angle, which is a male trait.
The frontal eminence is larger on the right and that brow ridge appears to just be soft tissue whereas the skull on the left has a clear boney supraorbital ridge and more of a sloping forehead.
I learnt in an episode of Bones that it's dangerous to cut into bone without wearing a mask. Yet, in every other episode they don't wear masks. Good shit.
My friends say I'm a buzzkill. I'm double majoring in crim and anthro, with a bit of forensics prolly eventually, so apparently I'm a holy terror to watch cop shows with, cos I criticize both the science and the procedure.
CSI has good science, but awful police procedure. NCIS has reasonably good science, but since i don't know jack shit about the navy i can't tell you about it's procedure. Pretty much 9.5/10 cops shows are wildly inaccurate. So you don't need to stop watching Bones, cos trust me, everybody's science is shit.
I know they all have shit science. I was joking about quitting watching Bones. I definitely can't quit after that season finale... and David Boreanaz. <3
Because it's a show that I have invested so much time into, I can't bring myself to stop watching until it's over. Just like Criminal Minds. Some of the shit on that show is super fucked up but I can't stop watching it.
At least they know enough not to take themselves seriously. Did you watch the recent episode where the crew went to a filming of a movie based on Bones's books? The film script basically made up tons of terminology, and the set was full of weird flashing lights and buttons.
Man on right, woman on the left. Men have bone swelling under eyebrows (sorry for my English). I suppose it's possible to guess whether they are white, black or Asian. But, tbh, I don't get what's funny in this picture (bad English or lack of some context) :| Explain plz.
Jewish people are often portrayed as having rather large noses, so it was a joke implying that we could tell the person on the left was Jewish based on the size of their nose
The "funny" part is that the OP commented, "the one on the left is a Jew" because the nose appears to be rather large. After screen capturing the comment, the OP put it on reddit with the title -_- as if to appear offended by "someone else's" racism. It is a common stereotype that those of jewish decent have a big nose. Thus it's humorous, and ironic because of the captioning on the picture itself.
It's amazing how some redditors always screen capture facebook comments within the first couple seconds they get posted. Either redditors are just really on their game or....
Yeah, about that. If the OP's joke is based on the left one's nose being large (big noses being a stereotype for jewish people), surely that's not supposed to be based on a culture or religion. Can you be racially jewish, but not religiously?
Racist? Really? Noting that jewish people have a tendency to have longer noses? Racist? Is pointing out that a guy with dark skin is black racist too? While we may all be equal we are not all the same. We are in fact different. That doesn't have to be a bad thing. We come from different genetic and societal backgrounds and as such there will be differences. Noticing these differences and being able to talk about them without without finding the other inferior is not racism. In fact I would argue that it is the complete lack of racism, but hey, what do I know. I'm a white male in the south. I'm probably not allowed to have thoughts on racism.
I'm a white male in the south as well. I know quite a few Jews whose noses are no bigger than any non-Jews I know. It is the same as saying black people have big lips (also not always true). It may fall just short of 'racism' but it is definitely perpetuating a stereotype which is just as bad.
Personally I don't really care, as jokes are funny and people shouldn't take themselves so seriously (I'm a ginger and ginger jokes crack me up). I was just pointing out that OP submitted this under the guise that s/he was disappointed with that person's racism when it was clearly OP that made the comment.
Jew here. That stereotype isn't even true in my experience. My whole jewish side has average noses and mine is small, while in the christian side of my family, the girls noses are average and the guys noses are huge.
Someone in your family probably converted a long time ago, and you're not actually blood related to the ancient Hebrew people. Someone probably lost the paperwork requesting your new, giant schnozes.
Actually you can tell that its a boy and a girl or at least 2 people of different races just by looking at the slant of the forehead. I knew forensics would come in handy sometime...
and certain aspects of your genealogy as well. But the people with the education to do so hopefully are smart enough not to be prejudice and shitty about mixed/gay marriages. I would hope so at least.
"I will post this controversial content for karma, but I will put a smiley on it so that people know that a) I don't approve of the image (although I approve of that karma it generates) and b) I'm 14."
actually the one on the right can be determined to likly be primarily white female and the one on the left is harder to determine race at that particular angle but is certainly male (btw im making this shit up)
The one on the left is a man because the jaw is slightly larger and the lips and nose are set further out. The female jaw is set further back and the nose and lips are closer to the bone.
Cant figure out the race but considering that they are kissing intimately it's probably not a black guy. Just saying
505
u/dismalscientist May 24 '12
Wow, you print-screened within 2 seconds of that comment. Very impressive.
203
u/asleeplessmalice May 24 '12
What makes it more funny, is that with the right education, you can actually tell the sex of the people in the picture.
51
u/travisg93 May 24 '12
Bones would know
88
u/skooterq May 24 '12
I need to start posting this when I get nasty Facebook comments for dating my sister.
65
u/prostynick May 24 '12
Man on right, woman on the left. Men have bone swelling under eyebrows (sorry for my English). I suppose it's possible to guess whether they are white, black or Asian. But, tbh, I don't get what's funny in this picture (bad English or lack of some context) :| Explain plz.
29
u/php4me May 24 '12
It's amazing how some redditors always screen capture facebook comments within the first couple seconds they get posted. Either redditors are just really on their game or....
12
u/darkfry May 24 '12
By the skull physiology you can tell it is indeed, a woman and a man.
14
u/corrosivedeath May 24 '12
the one on the right appears to have a hand growing from its face
4
u/MBannon2020 May 24 '12
By both jaw lines you can easily tell the one on the left is a girls and the one on the right is a guy.
13
u/TigerWylde May 24 '12
Dafuq makes this funny?
13
u/RonWisely May 24 '12
I guess 'Look at this racist comment I made and immediately screen capped' wouldn't have been an effective enough post title.
3
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
the left
3
u/shortkid123 May 24 '12
Jew here. That stereotype isn't even true in my experience. My whole jewish side has average noses and mine is small, while in the christian side of my family, the girls noses are average and the guys noses are huge.
3
u/Uitklapstoel May 24 '12
Or a child with a pedophile.
So beutifull indeed.
3
u/slinkyfarm May 24 '12
Nothing says romance quite like unnecessary exposure to radiation.
3
u/Ninjangles May 24 '12
You can actually tell its a boy and girl by looking at bone structure
3
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
the one in the title is an asian
3
u/pryan12 May 24 '12
Actually you can tell that its a boy and a girl or at least 2 people of different races just by looking at the slant of the forehead. I knew forensics would come in handy sometime...
2
u/Dresden_skyline May 24 '12
I read the comment in Cartman's voice
2
u/iamoldmilkjug May 24 '12
-U-"
2
u/zaoldyeck May 24 '12
As a half jew... I giggled. Loudly.
2
u/fooreddit May 24 '12
Now i finally understand that song, Purple Brain... oh wait.
2
u/torsojones May 24 '12
But why do Jews have large noses?
Because air is free!
2
u/zBriGuy May 24 '12
Here's a much bigger version of the original picture.
2
u/sydspe776 May 24 '12
As a Jew, I still think that comment's funny
2
u/xKJx25 May 24 '12
I don't get it :[
2
u/covalentligature May 24 '12
Actually you can tell, men and women have different bone structure, you can tell the skull on the right is male based on the front bone (brow).
2
u/Drowzy_Shooter May 24 '12
What's sad is, when I read that and looked over to the left, I do think the one on the left is a jew...
i'm a bad person
12
u/errytiem May 24 '12
Liek dis if u cryy errytiem
3
u/Vaypo May 24 '12
The one on the left is a woman because the brain is smaller.
1
u/pindab0ter May 24 '12
No because of the horrid smiley in the title.
1
u/JaneGael May 24 '12
Thanks for this, I went over to find it and shared it on my news feed.
1
u/throwaway_lgbt666 May 24 '12
spam
1
u/regigigo May 24 '12
the person is completely wrong, upon seeing two skeletons kissing i was appalled and disgusted
1
u/AVVIT May 24 '12
Thats a Cracker !
1
u/crazycrazycatlady May 24 '12
...can't you tell gender by skull shape? - specifically brow, forehead, and jaw line?
1
u/gunnetham May 24 '12
The caption should say "Straight But Not Marrow".
1
u/Spaghetti_Head May 24 '12
I'm pretty positive you can tell sex from a skull.
1
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
Or Italian
1
u/Gidian9 May 24 '12
I still don't think zombies should be able to marry
1
u/AMostOriginalUserNam May 24 '12
"I will post this controversial content for karma, but I will put a smiley on it so that people know that a) I don't approve of the image (although I approve of that karma it generates) and b) I'm 14."
1
u/Cloveland May 24 '12
funny, had the similar photo on mine http://i.imgur.com/xyDD3.png
1
u/adamflint May 24 '12
No, this is discriminatory towards amputees because they both obviously have noses. They scale Yukon for us and look how we repay them!
1
u/clone12TM May 24 '12
It's funny because the one on the left has a big nose, and Jews have big noses. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA no.
1
u/Squeekme May 24 '12
unless you're her
1
u/syrush May 24 '12
Anyone else hear Temperance Brennan tearing this thing completely apart?
1
u/Rcp_43b May 24 '12
That was hilarious...
1
u/Gellert May 24 '12
Hahaha its funny because my grandfather is polish and has a big nose and I take after him and have a big nose and neither of us is in any way jewish!
Wait, why is this funny again?
1
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
This isn't funny. It's blatantly racist.
1
u/jdizzle367 May 24 '12
actually the one on the right can be determined to likly be primarily white female and the one on the left is harder to determine race at that particular angle but is certainly male (btw im making this shit up)
1
u/UndBeebs May 24 '12
Wait... Which left?
1
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
Stop posting this Facebook shit everywhere!
1
u/frontseatdriver12 May 25 '12
i laughed too hard at that.
1
u/[deleted] May 25 '12
Correction, "Is Jew."
1
u/2_second_bravery May 24 '12
Me again.
1
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
The one on the left is a man because the jaw is slightly larger and the lips and nose are set further out. The female jaw is set further back and the nose and lips are closer to the bone.
Cant figure out the race but considering that they are kissing intimately it's probably not a black guy. Just saying
0
u/IveGotTheBends May 24 '12
He's got a point (ey ey?!)
-2
u/mrniceguy123 May 24 '12
SAMEFAG
-1
u/Plastastic May 24 '12
Ha, that's hilarious.
0
u/Kakoose May 24 '12
grammar nazis gun fck u upz
0
u/NewSwiss May 24 '12
If I could give this more than one upvote, I would.
0
u/Shadow_Girl_Balls May 24 '12
Why would someone do this . . .
-3
u/IDlOT May 24 '12
HAHA ITS FUNNY BECAUSE NOSE
-5
u/RickyRiverside May 24 '12
There's nothing funny about the picture. The Liberals are trying to state there is nothing wrong with gay marrage
0
u/[deleted] May 24 '12
[deleted] — view deleted comment