MyHeritage and 23andme are working with the exact same data and spitting out tremendously different ancestry estimates Am I to assume they're just kind of making it up
I suspect 23andme is deliberately adding statistical noise to make results look more "diverse"
@uncle_deluge 23andme's whole raison d'être is to make you not racist.
23andme used to have a little sliding bar at the bottom where you could dial out the level of certainty. It seems like it’s locked at the most conservative estimate now. They’re both estimates though. Ancestry has the best platform, because you can verify the test against an actual family tree. Mormons and autists have put in so much work building family trees that, all you need to do is add a few names and you inevitably run into people that have already built the rest out. It took me like 30 minutes to track my entire family back to the 15th century.
@uncle_deluge Sounds like the tests are accurate for what they are, but what they are is something very different than what they're marketed as. From Scientific American
@uncle_deluge It got me 1% American Indian and I'm sticking to that 🙃