WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade

aluger at hushmail.com aluger at hushmail.com
Wed Mar 14 19:06:19 PST 2001


At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:46:24 -0500, John Young <jya at 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.
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