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However, we clarify here a certain number of limitations which lower the reliability and ease of application of the usual methods. We propose a new tool\u2014Probabilistic Sex Diagnosis (DSP: Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste)\u2014based on a worldwide hip-bone metrical database (2040 adult specimens of known sex from 12 different reference populations). Sex is determined by comparing the specimen\u2019s measurements to those from the database and by computing the individual probability of being female or male, from any combination of at least four variables among ten. This method is very easy to learn and apply; it provides sex diagnosis for any anatomically modern human, whatever population the specimen belongs to. Numerous combinations allow sex diagnosis of either well\u2014preserved hip-bones or damaged ones. DSP is thus useful for both archaeological and forensic purposes. Its accuracy is close to 100%. 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