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.
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I have been tested thru Family Tree DNA (FTdna), it is considered the most reliable.
Bkmrk.
Stupid liberals. They can’t fathom that finding “african” in your DNA gives you the chance to say, “How can I be racist, I’m part Black!”
I noticed they aren’t doing the same thing for the jews, I think it would be funny to tell every arab they are part Jew.
How do they decide which whites are racists that need to be screwed with?
It would be hilarious if Feaucahontas were to seek genetic counseling to prove her indian heritage only to find she’s more Zulu than Cherokee.
IMO anyone that submits their DNA to any one with out a warrant is an idiot. Including my sister.
She sent me the result of herss and suggested I do it too.
I told her what I just wrote. She went bonkers.
But she like Gildabrand so nuf’said.
Why
That sounds like consumer fraud to me.
All they do is pick your results out of a hat , then add some black ,LOL
I’m still confused as to who I am....
1st/ Why?
2nd/ You should be for submitting to it in the 1st place
The most incriminating circumstantial evidence would be if any of the researchers fiddling around with people’s DNA were educated in our public school system.
LOL. Easy boy!
Test Agencies intentionally screwing up results?
That doesn’t even make sense. That revelation would close them down by opening them up to massive litigation.
It might be conceivable that a tech or two would mess with results.
Unless Ancestry.com and similar groups are using home basement labs ...
It didn’t screw with me!
I now put African-American on my job applications and whenever my kids take a test, they will do so as part African-American.
That will fix the race-normers.
It’s less than 1%, but at what point do you get cut out of all those African American privileges?
This is why I haven’t done one of these tests. There are no trust controls in place. They’ll tell you just about anything.
Fake News. Click bait.
Fraud is a criminal act as I recall.
There, fixed it for you.
I was having a discussion about this a couple weeks ago.
Ancestry’s long YouTube ads really play to the emotional appeal of discovering DNA secrets, all presented as decoded mysteries of the universe.
Riiight... and the way to independently cross check and validate this information is? The ads remind me that who matters is who counts the votes.
Digging up birth records, immigration documents, marriage certificates, old newpaper articles, and so on can only go back so far, but they provide a solid way to investigate actual lineage and histories. Multiple independent sources to root through.
How are these tests any different than a media monopoly. The commercials tell me that the clowns running the show are running a show, which means their integrity is suspect at best, and therefore the real DNA data they collect is likely available for sale to the highest bidder.
Or it has all been a front from the get-go. There are those who say, “Well if the government wanted my DNA it already has it or can get it whenever I will need a lab test”.
I’ll keep my doors locked anyway. Same reason I lock my luggage, and use non TSA-friendly locks. Let them have to break in. Just because people think governmant has all the data, doesn’t mean it does. I’ve seen the efficiency of bureaucrats.
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