Man sends lizard saliva to 23andMe for DNA testing, exposing total fraud of company’s claims of human ancestry
I think the author and I have a different takeaway from those results.
Didn't they openly admit that diversity is more important than accuracy, and they would start race mixing the results for muh raycism?
No. I made an account years ago (back when I was less worried about privacy). Over time, changes to the algorithm have made me Whiter and Whiter. Now it shows me at 100% European, and 97% North-Western European.
By my pedigree, I estimate that I am actually 94% North-Western European, 5% Southern European, and 1% New World. Their previous estimates had me with some Southern European (though the wrong subtype) and a tiny crumb of Japanese (standing in for New World?).
Estimates only partially assigned me European ancestry, leaving some unassigned.
Just fyi, any result of less than 5% or so is statistical noise. It has no merit. Arguably, less than 10%-15%. To obtain this level of detail requires higher quality testing, which is not provided by these companies for speed and cost reasons.
They may have but even a broken clock is right twice a day. If your intent is to discredit them you might want to highlight a different data point for the crowd here.
Would have been great to do three simultaneously taken samples under different names. See the spread.
I read the title to my wife. Her response was "so jews are lizard people?"
You have a keeper.
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