[Dr. Zzyzx]

Take the skull of someone who has died that we have a photo of and hand it to these guys to see how close they come.

[publius911]

Take the skull of someone who has died that we have a photo of and hand it to these guys to see how close they come.

Yup.

One of the classic fallacies, appeal to authority (or "experts.")

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter XVII (Pg 209)

[PapaBear3625]

Take the skull of someone who has died that we have a photo of and hand it to these guys to see how close they come.

Much of the technology comes from forensic reconstruction, where they do a reconstruction and then try matching it against missing people. In those cases, they do often get feedback on how well they did.