Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend
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Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend
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Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend
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It wasn’t until DNA sequencing emerged in the 1990s that paternity tests earned the legal system’s confidence. Labs were able to compare DNA markers in children to those of their purported fathers to see if they matched.
As the lab tests piled up, researchers collated the results and came to a startling conclusion: Ten percent to 30 percent of the tested men were not the biological fathers of their children.
Those figures were spread far and wide, ending up in many science books. But the problem with the lab data, Dr. Larmuseau said, was that it didn’t come from a random sample of people. The people who ordered the tests already had reason to doubt paternity.
(continued, could make a difference having doubts....?)
Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend
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It wasn’t until DNA sequencing emerged in the 1990s that paternity tests earned the legal system’s confidence. Labs were able to compare DNA markers in children to those of their purported fathers to see if they matched.
As the lab tests piled up, researchers collated the results and came to a startling conclusion: Ten percent to 30 percent of the tested men were not the biological fathers of their children.
Those figures were spread far and wide, ending up in many science books. But the problem with the lab data, Dr. Larmuseau said, was that it didn’t come from a random sample of people. The people who ordered the tests already had reason to doubt paternity.
(continued, could make a difference having doubts....?)
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Archbishop of Canterbury learns real father was Churchill's private secretary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36002621
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36002621
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I thought the milkman was the usual suspect...
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They don't have very many milkmen in the land of the gnu....JimC wrote:I thought the milkman was the usual suspect...
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Mail carrier. Mailman is sexist -.-
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Careful crumple, start posting stuff like this and next thing you know you're a white knighting mangina.
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Parent. Father is sexist, too.Tyrannical wrote:Mail carrier. Mailman is sexist -.-
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Even if the rate was 5%, I'd think it was high. 10 to 30%, even if the sampling is skewed to already existing suspicious circumstances seems astronomical...
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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I think knowing that I am a bastard places me at a slight advantage over those who think they might not be.
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We're all carbon copies of my dad, no chance of a mailman situation there.
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My stepmother has four sisters. She likes to tell this story:
Mum, dad and all of us children went to a big family reunion at a function centre. It was really big. Many of the people there we had never met before, but apparently they were all family. Obviously some of those family members did not know us either. After dinner some biddy cruised up to our table and started chatting. At one stage she asked mum: "And all these are your kids?" "Yes", said mum. "Wow", said biddy. "They all look so different." I thought of making a joke about it. "That's because every one of us has a different father." My mother has not spoken to me since.
Mum, dad and all of us children went to a big family reunion at a function centre. It was really big. Many of the people there we had never met before, but apparently they were all family. Obviously some of those family members did not know us either. After dinner some biddy cruised up to our table and started chatting. At one stage she asked mum: "And all these are your kids?" "Yes", said mum. "Wow", said biddy. "They all look so different." I thought of making a joke about it. "That's because every one of us has a different father." My mother has not spoken to me since.
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