# Daegling 1999: Bigfoot's Screen Test

> David J. Daegling, Daniel O. Schmitt, 1999. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The principal sceptical biomechanical critique.

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# Bigfoot's Screen Test

David J. Daegling, Daniel O. Schmitt, 1999. _Skeptical Inquirer 23(3), May/June 1999_.

A Yale anthropologist and a Duke locomotion biomechanist examine claims that the film subject's gait cannot be reproduced by a human, and the assumptions behind height and gait estimates from the film.

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## What it's used for here

The principal sceptical biomechanical critique.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Estimates of height and gait carry large uncertainties from the unknown frame rate, distance and lens.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film/evidence/EVD0CZ25YQP5P83/estimates-of-height-and-gait-carry-large-uncertainties-from)

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[Daegling and Schmitt publish "Bigfoot's Screen Test"](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film/events/EVT0CZ25V2G54YV/daegling-and-schmitt-publish-bigfoots-screen-test)

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[Daniel O. Schmitt](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film/people/FIG0CZ25RCJ2GW5/daniel-o-schmitt)

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[The Patterson-Gimlin film](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film)

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## Cite it

```
Daegling, D. J., & Schmitt, D. O. (1999). Bigfoot's Screen Test. Skeptical Inquirer 23(3), May/June 1999. https://skepticalinquirer.org/1999/05/bigfoots-screen-test/
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[Find it at skepticalinquirer.org](https://skepticalinquirer.org/1999/05/bigfoots-screen-test/)

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