(10-18-2018, 09:01 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-17-2018, 10:44 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: 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.

When the DNA-testing companies give percentages, they usually aren't clean, base-2 percentages like 6.25% or 0.78% or 0.098%.  They're more random number. The percentages they give are really based on "German people usually have at least 9 out of 13 of these distinct genetic markers, you have 4 of the 13, so we'll pencil you in as 45% German until we look at what other distinct ethnic markers you have, then we'll massage the percentages so they add up to 100%"  Bustamante could have constructed a percentage, but instead he gave a range of how many generations had passed.  Right-wing meme-smiths came in behind Bustamante and did the bad math of {6,7,8,9,10} = 10; 1/(2^10) = 0.098%.