16 Mar
2001
16 Mar
'01
12:17 a.m.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John Young wrote:
"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."
Paternity test subjects are hardly representative of the whole population.
I've heard similar figures from the CDC - when they discover genetic disease, they often do tests to find out which parent it was inherited through - and about the same fraction of the time, they find that kids are no relation to their fathers. Bear