WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade

[Ray Dillinger]

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