(10-17-2018, 09:49 PM)mikesez Wrote: As I said to you already, the 0.09% isn't indicative of how genetics actually works.  The only people using that number haven't read the report and don't fully understand genetics.

And as I replied to someone else, this idea that there is an "average value" of native American DNA is not meaningful.  In this case, if you want to know how unique Warren is compared to other white people you'd want to know percentiles and medians, not averages.

I don't have a category for her.  She's a little native. She's mostly white.  She's American.  That's all she ever claimed.  She doesn't qualify for tribal recognition.  She never claimed to and never asked to.  If Trump didn't decide to insult her about this, most people would have forgotten this whole thing long ago.

If that isn't how it works, why then do the DNA-testing companies use percentages to explain genetic makeup.

It isn't meaningful to you because it isn't helpful to your stance. Are averages reflective of everyone's DNA? Of course not but it should put in perspective how little is in Warren's.

If you don't have a category for her, how can you debate if she is or isn't one? You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but it seems like you want to defend her but don't want to admit she isn't native American. That isn't "all she ever claimed", by the way. She claimed to be no less than 1/8 Cherokee Indian when she said he mother was half-half. 

Trump certainly gave the conversation fire, but let's not pretend that Trump started it. Like Trump does, he attacks everyone who attacks him. When he attacks, he uses whatever he can, and in this case it was her fake lineage.

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