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criticas | 2 years ago

Don't believe the clickbait titles. It's nothing earth shattering or unexpected. From Skepchick: "This study also can’t speak to the frequency of female hunters: “80%” is a binary number, meaning that it only tells us that at some point 80% of these societies showed evidence that yeah, women here actively track, locate, and kill animals for sustenance. It doesn’t mean they did a greater or even equal amount of hunting as men. It only supports what seems to have become a pretty well-accepted fact: many modern hunter-gatherer societies, and probably many ancient ones, don’t or didn’t have strict gender roles that would forbid an able-bodied person from doing whatever they can do to help the health and safety of the larger community. " https://skepchick.org/2023/06/did-a-new-study-debunk-man-the...

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criticas|2 years ago

Also, that "80%" had a sample size of 63; they had 361 total, but only 63 had information on the hunter's gender.