Petition updateAncestryDNA: Improve Your Reference Panel To Make Your DNA Testing AccurateOther People Are Paying Attention. e.g., An Argentinan Young Man Also Called AncestryDNA Out
Nicole CzarneckiPrivate, MD, United States
Feb 18, 2023

He had both himself and his father tested, and he explained how Ancestry misrepresented that his mother — not his father — is an indigenous Latinamerican

If Ancestry were submitting an ethnicity white paper for a research-methods class, they would fail on the following criteria: 

  1. Random sampling
  2. Attempts to get groups of at least 400 to 1000 for minimum samples, including whichever control group they use
  3. Attempted 1:1 ratios for their groups, including whichever control group they use
  4. Deliberate avoidance of confirmation and selection bias

 

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