Posted on 08/15/2005 12:50:43 PM PDT by aimhigh
About 4 percent of men may unknowingly be raising a child that really belongs to the mailman or some other guy, researchers speculate in a new study.
Here's the real news: With modern methods, the truth will become known more frequently.
Researchers pawed through a host of scientific articles published around the world from 1950 through last year. The perceived "paternal discrepancy rate," as it is called, ranges from less than 1 percent to as high as 30 percent in the various studies. Most researchers believe the rate is less than 10 percent.
The author's settled on four percent -- one in 25 families -- in a new article in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Thats so real its spooky. Good one.
50% of all schoolchildren are below average in math.
Terrible.
Oh, baby.
Not even close.
:)
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