Here's some relief:
Posted on 12/10/2017 8:36:40 AM PST by Enlightened1
Who were your ancestors? What is your ethnic background composed of? Sites like Ancestry.com and 23andme have always been some go to sources in answering all of your toughest questions. But how accurate are they? In a recent interview with Cracked, one of the major ancestry testing companies, (which specific company is unknown) spilled the beans on what really happens when you purchase an ancestry kit. While I can’t say I’m surprised, you may be shocked to learn that these ancestry sites aren’t always as accurate as they claim to be. Beyond this, they’ve also admitted to tampering with the result to “screw with racists”.
When Inside Edition had a set of triplets send their spit in to Ancestry.com and 23andMe, they got wildly different results from both services. Neither gave each triplet the same ancestry results. “Tests can be a crapshoot. For DNA tests, they use genetic markers, which are little variations in the DNA one or several groups may have, but others do not. The more markers there are, the more accurate the test will be.”
Shocked yet? Yeah, I didn’t think so. A lot of my friends have taken these types of DNA Tests, and most of them come back saying, “I don’t think this is entirely accurate…”
Remember when white supremacist Craig Cobb found out that he was 14% black? Well as it turns out, there’s a possibility that those numbers could have been fudged with.
(Excerpt) Read more at squawker.org ...
mtDNA and Y-DNA as well as autosomal testing is more or less the norm now. I'm not down with the geographical origins idea -- all the results can tell us is, the area(s) of the world where, according to the data available to the testing company, other living people share the DNA sequences that managed to make it through the testee's (!) Sieve of Zeno illustrated above. Oooh, I just cointed that, AFAIK! Cheap thrills!
they might as well believe in the tooth fairy...
The primary blood DNA sequence is on chromosome 9, not sure where the crip sequence is.
lol! I saw what you did there!
Me neither, but MS 13 is being deported. . . LOL!
;')The correct number of chromosomes could have been discerned, one would think, during the almost 35 years involved in the events above. The most daunting realization is that the double heliacal form of DNA was discerned in 1953, two years before this chromosome count was corrected.
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley (pp 23-24)"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see."
Hispanic people are actually a mix of native American and Iberian peninsula.
My results matched my non id info spot on. It also verified my biological family on both sides. In fact my highest match was maternal first cousin.
Mine was fine, the closest matches were known cousins (easily recognized through their aliases), but beyond that, it hasn’t been useful for making contact on my “mystery” lines, so, basically useless. I’m basically satisfied, but like so much else, their DNA testing is just a great big ad for their $16/mo Ancestry subscription.
Some but not all. Think Vicente zFox and Cubans, who pride themselves on not being mongrels.
DNA companies themselves admit that their testing isn’t 100% accurate. One of my tests said I was 93% Irish while another test said I was only 80% Irish. The less than 1% totals are particularly inaccurate. Those are basically statistical noise that may not even be real. There are some white Americans with distant African ancestry, although it’s a lot less common than liberals pretend it is. And why shouldn’t a person with 1/32 or 1/64 black ancestry be considered white anyway? (Unless you’re some kind of believer in 1930s Alabama hypodescent laws.)
These DNA tests are a scam.
The ethnicity portion is an evolving science. There are tools on gedmatch.com that offer a deeper analysis, especially for non European ethnicities.
The real gold, at least to me, is the matching to other users. Many people have been reunited with family, especially adoptees. *raising hand*
bump. (i was looking for this and the big tech co’s have scrubbed it)
I’m shocked. /s
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