Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

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Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

Post by cronus » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:33 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/scien ... p=cur&_r=0

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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Re: Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

Post by Feck » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:58 am

Archbishop of Canterbury learns real father was Churchill's private secretary
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Re: Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:10 am

I thought the milkman was the usual suspect...
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Re: Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

Post by cronus » Sun Apr 10, 2016 1:17 am

JimC wrote:I thought the milkman was the usual suspect...
They don't have very many milkmen in the land of the gnu.... :coffee:
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Re: Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend

Post by Tyrannical » Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:35 am

Mail carrier. Mailman is sexist -.-
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Post by rachelbean » Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:46 pm

Careful crumple, start posting stuff like this and next thing you know you're a white knighting mangina.

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Post by Forty Two » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:39 pm

Tyrannical wrote:Mail carrier. Mailman is sexist -.-
Parent. Father is sexist, too.
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Post by Forty Two » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:51 pm

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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Post by Cunt » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:27 pm

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Post by rachelbean » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:32 am

We're all carbon copies of my dad, no chance of a mailman situation there.
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Post by Hermit » Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:09 pm

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.
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