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Apparently consumer DNA testing kits are complete BS
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:17 pm
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Awesome. Whats even the point of buying these kits? This is worse than wasting money on a pet rock.
I think i'm going to return the kits I got on cyber-Monday I was going to give my kids as christmas gifts.
Didn't some other genetic lab get called out recently for making shite up? seems like their woman CEO had to resign over it.
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But 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 — which, considering they all came from the same womb, is pretty weird.
Inside Edition found differences of over 10 percent between the triplets they tested. That is not a small gap. If you were off by 10 percent on a DNA test, you could technically be a mouse. Maybe it’s unreasonable to expect perfect accuracy from saliva you mailed to a lab. But a lot of people do anyway, and Morgan winds up dealing with their complaints.
Awesome. Whats even the point of buying these kits? This is worse than wasting money on a pet rock.
I think i'm going to return the kits I got on cyber-Monday I was going to give my kids as christmas gifts.
Didn't some other genetic lab get called out recently for making shite up? seems like their woman CEO had to resign over it.
This post was edited on 12/12/17 at 4:19 pm
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Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:18 pm to CAD703X
send me a piece of your hair for $99 and I'll send you a "certificate" saying where you're from
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:19 pm to CAD703X
Well I hope this doesn't get out, because my new black brothers are about to beat me up.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:19 pm to CAD703X
Ain't no WOMAN CEO gonn' tell me I got some black in me!
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:20 pm to CAD703X
Nein.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:20 pm to CAD703X
Government database front!
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:21 pm to CAD703X
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Whats even the point of buying these kits?
Government DNA collection. They fooled people into paying money to give away their DNA.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:21 pm to CAD703X
The triplets were adopted from 3 separate families.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:22 pm to CAD703X
It's got to be at least generally correct because I know people who have done it who got their ancestry right.
Mostly French, English, and German for example, which they are.
I don't know of anyone who is Cajun and it came back and said they were mostly Scandinavian or something. Or a White person getting results that they are mostly Hispanic or Black.
So it's got to be at least generally correct even if the results aren't 100% exact.
Mostly French, English, and German for example, which they are.
I don't know of anyone who is Cajun and it came back and said they were mostly Scandinavian or something. Or a White person getting results that they are mostly Hispanic or Black.
So it's got to be at least generally correct even if the results aren't 100% exact.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:23 pm to CAD703X
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I think i'm going to return the kits I got on cyber-Monday I was going to give my kids as christmas gifts.
what???
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:23 pm to TH03
quote:Exactly. frick if I'm giving my DNA to the government. They already have my fingerprints since I used to work in the state district court system.
Government DNA collection. They fooled people into paying money to give away their DNA.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:23 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:24 pm to CAD703X
When I got mine it said, "Still Ni**a" so ...... 
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:26 pm to CAD703X
we have three dogs...a terrier, a bloodhound and a mutt.
wife wanted to know what the mutt was so she gets one of these pet DNA kits, and does the saliva swab and sends it in
a month later the results come back...miraculously our mutt is part terrier/part bloodhound, part whatever. wife is thrilled that the mutt is somehow "related" to the others until i point to the communal water bowl on the floor
wife wanted to know what the mutt was so she gets one of these pet DNA kits, and does the saliva swab and sends it in
a month later the results come back...miraculously our mutt is part terrier/part bloodhound, part whatever. wife is thrilled that the mutt is somehow "related" to the others until i point to the communal water bowl on the floor
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:26 pm to CAD703X
I don’t need these kits to know I’m half black. I just look in my pants.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:27 pm to cgrand
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I think i'm going to return the kits I got on cyber-Monday I was going to give my kids as christmas gifts.
what???
thought they'd want to know what they are made of since my father is german and my mom is a coonass.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:29 pm to PrimeTime Money
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It's got to be at least generally correct because I know people who have done it who got their ancestry right.
And just how do those people know their ancestry is correct? Ancestry is superbly easy to fabricate, especially the further back you go.
But for a test not to show re results of triplets? That's a solid litmus test and to fail that raises solid red flags.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:31 pm to CAD703X
quote:FINALLY...someone that can hang with me drinking
thought they'd want to know what they are made of since my father is german and my mom is a coonass.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:34 pm to CAD703X
Wait, each set of triplets took a different test? That seems highly unscientific. Sounds like they didn't want to pay for 3X the amount of kits they should have for accurate comparison.
Shame on you Inside Edition.
Also, Jeff Rossen did the same thing for the Today show almost two weeks ago. All three reports (23andme, Ancestry, and FamilyDNA) showed identical information. I truly believe you shouldn't take the results as the Gospel and should be use in conjunction with actual research.
Rossen Report
Shame on you Inside Edition.
Also, Jeff Rossen did the same thing for the Today show almost two weeks ago. All three reports (23andme, Ancestry, and FamilyDNA) showed identical information. I truly believe you shouldn't take the results as the Gospel and should be use in conjunction with actual research.
Rossen Report
This post was edited on 12/12/17 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 12/12/17 at 4:36 pm to CAD703X
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thought they'd want to know what they are made of since my father is german and my mom is a coonass.
Typical that your own kids don’t believe you.
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