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Over at StatNews is a story on a recent trend where low cost commercial DNA testing is resulting in a number of White Nationalists taking genetic tests, and sometimes they don't like the results that come back.
The article looks at research on how they respond to the sometimes unexpected results:
[...] In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years' worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.
[...] About a third of the people posting their results were pleased with what they found. "Pretty damn pure blood," said a user with the username Sloth. But the majority didn't find themselves in that situation. Instead, the community often helped them reject the test, or argue with its results.
Some rejected the tests entirely, saying that an individual's knowledge about his or her own genealogy is better than whatever a genetic test can reveal. [...] Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don't matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy "that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry," Panofsky said.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 18 2017, @05:35PM (1 child)
But if I understand correctly the separate evolution of lactase persistence in some of the populations used a different mechanism than in other populations. I forget whether there were two or three different mechanisms, but they weren't all the same mutation, they just had the same effect. And I wouldn't be surprised if the same were true for the evolution of sickle cell.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Friday August 18 2017, @09:03PM
That is correct, and why the 'but?' That is completely consistent with what I said and in fact serves itself as proof of its correctness! The fact that it's not always done in exactly the same way shows clearly that it has multiple origins and therefore has to be disqualified as an indicator of deep ancestry. (And even if it did have a single origin, the fact that it's so clearly susceptible to selection would do the same thing - so this is doubly disqualified.)
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