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To: ETL
Statistics, statistics, statistics.

If you're company has less than X percent of a certain race as employees, you must be guilty of racial discrimination, yes?

Be wary of "dragnet dna". It's one thing to use it as a possible lead in a case, but shouldn't be used by itself to get something like a no-knock warrant.

Of course, many won't care until they are the ones mistakenly dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and stuck w/jail and thousands in legal fees defending themselves.

Before supporting what's discussed in this article, I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with the concept of false positives.

https://projects.nfstc.org/workshops/resources/articles/How%20the%20Probability%20of%20a%20False%20Positive%20Affects%20the.pdf

47 posted on 10/12/2018 10:49:35 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Unless one actually committed the crime, the increase in odds of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night from a DNA screening is statistically insignificant.

On the other hand, the odds of a DNA test immediately clearing an innocent person as a suspect are almost 100%. I like those odds, which is why my wife and I both uploaded our DNA.


56 posted on 10/12/2018 11:03:15 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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