Obviously female hunters and egalitarian prehistoric societies are not a men's rights issue - I am sure we all here support all female hunters of the past and present. However this study attracted lot of media attention and lead to considerable smug from feminist social media. It is also interesting to see what kind of science gets reported on in the media. I am also wondering if having a scientific discussion on the quality of the study will raise accusations of misogyny.

Here are some interesting quotes:

[This new] paper, written by 15 different professors, does not accuse the 2023 paper, written by four undergraduate students and a professor at Seattle Pacific University, of deception. Rather, it argues there are flaws in the design and methodology of the study.

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“Imagine a society in which women hunt 1 percent of the time, and imagine one in which they hunt 50 percent of the time,” he said. “That’s a big difference, but coding it as a binary collapses that difference. One of the issues we identified with the Anderson paper is that they coded women’s hunting as a binary.”

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“We found that their sample was biased, which served to inflate the frequency of women’s hunting, binary coding was another problem,” he told The Fix. “We also found that much of their data were, in fact, miscoded.”

or

“I find it most interesting that Venkataraman et al. jump straight from women-hunt-too, to Anderson et al. claim there is no gendered labor,” Wall-Scheffler said.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholars-question-study-finding-prevalence-of-female-hunters-in-forager-societies/