{"id":39878,"date":"2015-02-07T20:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39878"},"modified":"2017-04-24T02:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:08:32","slug":"you-cannot-look-at-dna-and-read-it-like-a-book-or-a-map-of-a-journey-for-the-most-part-these-tests-cannot-tell-you-the-things-they-claim-to-they-are-little-more-than-genetic-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39878","title":{"rendered":"You cannot look at DNA and read it like a book or a map of a journey. For the most part these tests cannot tell you the things they claim to \u2013 they are little more than genetic astrology."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is well known that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horoscope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">horoscopes<\/a> use vague statements which recipients think are more tailored than they really are (referred to as the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forer_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forer effect<\/a>\u2019). <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genealogical_DNA_test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genetic ancestry tests<\/a> do a similar thing, and many exaggerate far beyond the available evidence about human origins. You cannot look at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DNA<\/a> and read it like a book or a map of a journey. For the most part these tests cannot tell you the things they claim to \u2013 they are little more than genetic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">astrology<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tabitha Innocent, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sense About Genetic Ancestry Testing<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sense About Science: Science and Evidence in the Hands of the Public<\/em>, (March 7, 2013). 1. <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.senseaboutscience.org\/data\/files\/resources\/119\/Sense-About-Genetic-Ancestry-Testing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/archive.senseaboutscience.org\/data\/files\/resources\/119\/Sense-About-Genetic-Ancestry-Testing.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is well known that horoscopes use vague statements which recipients think are more tailored than they really are (referred to as the \u2018Forer effect\u2019). Genetic ancestry tests do a similar thing, and many exaggerate far beyond the available evidence about human origins. You cannot look at DNA and read it like a book or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18985,18984,18986],"class_list":["post-39878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-sense-about-science","tag-sense-about-science-science-and-evidence-in-the-hands-of-the-public","tag-tabitha-innocent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53658,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878\/revisions\/53658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}