At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:46:24 -0500, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Aluger commanded:
I'd like to see a cite to this.
New York Times, March 11, 2001, page 1:
"According to the American Association of Blood Banks, 280,000 paternity tests were conducted in 1999, three times as many as a decade earliet. And in 28 percent of the tests, the man tested was found not to be the father."
A skewed figure, in that the sample is taken from cases in which there is already a dispute, not the population at large, as the quote initially suggested. Of course that smaller pool will have a higher incidence of "not dad" findings. They are having the test done because they suspect "not dad" problems. It's like saying that 28% of blood tests showed prostate cancer, without disclosing that all of the tested parties asked for the test because they couldn't piss a single stream. Duh. Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com