As explained by the Royal Academy's three sponsors of the experiment, its aim was to demonstrate the true posture of a crucified figure which, when still warm, "fell into the position that a dead body must fall into".
Since, however, posture distributions vary between shifts for a particular individual [ 12, 23, 40, 42], true posture percentiles for single full-shifts may, themselves, be biased estimates of posture percentiles across multiple shifts, analogous to within-shift samples being biased estimates of that shift's true exposure.
Maintain a straight posture.
It is acknowledged that measuring true "usual" posture is difficult in the laboratory setting.
It is true that the posture and gait of Glover are reminiscent of Thomas Rice, the original Jim Crow.
These figures feel disturbingly, intimately true: varied in physical posture, emotional presence and facial expression, precise in the detailing and easy hang of their different garments, and familiar in the clear identifiability of things like shoes.
And while it's true that the multiple postures and body languages of the figures do convey the complexity of individual consciousness, the subjects' faces are more often contemplative luminous masks rather than emotive, leaving the viewer free to interpret their specific thoughts for themselves.
Sheer proximity made ideological anti-Communism an unaffordable luxury for Europe a generation ago; the same may be true for an anti-Russian posture today.
Many prehistoric animal groups are popularly conceived of as dinosaurs, such as ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and Dimetrodon, but are not classified scientifically as dinosaurs, and none had the erect hind limb posture characteristic of true dinosaurs.
Affectionately known as Guruji to his pupils, Iyengar was renowned for his majestic demonstrations of yoga asanas (postures), but his true brilliance was in how he wove the philosophy of yoga into his teaching, bringing it to the forefront and raising the profile of hatha yoga in India and throughout the world.
But in laying out its working theory, it adopted a posture that may hold true in its final report.
