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Yellowlees Report: Age Estimations

Volume 416: debated on Tuesday 20 January 1981

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asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they agree with the opinion expressed in paragraph 3 of Appendix I of the Yellowlees Report that in estimating the age of children by

X-rays:

"the accuracy attainable is of the order of plus or minus six months".

The passage in question is not an opinion but a statement of the accuracy of age assessments obtained in the United States of America and Western Europe using tables of skeletal maturation.