Reporting Transparency Checklist
Definition
An explanatory aid for recording methods, references, results, interpretation and limitations. A checklist supports transparency but does not substitute for appropriate observations, case-relevant validation or the applicable reporting requirements.
Related terms
- AABA 2019 Statement
- The association’s Statement on Race and Racism, accepted on 27 March 2019, explaining that racial categories do not accurately represent human biological...
- Biological Race
- A concept from nineteenth-century physical anthropology that proposed discrete biological categories (races) of Homo sapiens. Modern population genetics and biological anthropology reject...
- BSA 2023 Section 39
- The expert-evidence provision of India's Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, successor to Indian Evidence Act Section 45. Governs the admissibility of expert opinion...
- Caucasoid / Mongoloid / Negroid
- Historical typological labels that should not be treated as discrete biological kinds. An unsupported classification is not repaired merely by replacing its...
- Clinal Variation
- Gradual geographical change in a biological trait. Patterns differ among traits and populations, with considerable overlap. Clinal variation does not divide humans...
- Daubert Standard
- The admissibility test applied in US federal courts and most US states, originating in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993). The trial...
- Population Affinity
- The preferred modern forensic-anthropological term for the relationship between an unidentified individual's skeletal morphology and a modern reference population. Replaces the older...
- SWGANTH
- Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology. Its Personal Identification guidance is dated 2010 and discusses comparative radiography, implants and other contributions. It...
- Typicality Probability
- A statistic assessing how unusual measurements are relative to a selected reference group. FORDISC provides different typicality calculations. Low typicality warrants review...