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> Perhap the interpretations are not PC (sexist bullshit), but the facts
can't
> be wrong can they?
I think it was Mark Twain who opined: "There are lies. There are damned
lies.
And then there are statistics."
Statistics can be skewed to give whatever meaning one chooses.
> Just a simple DNA/Blood type match as far as I can tell.
> The study is consistent with earlier work that found a 10% impossible
> blood-type match between newborns and their supposed fathers.
But just WHO is getting these blood tests? Not regular Jane and John
Schmoes...
not happily married couples. These are blood tests being conducted when
there
is already a problem, or suspected problem, in the relationship.
So one can only say that in one out of seven TROUBLED relationships, it
seems
that the husband of the woman is not indeed the father of a particular
child.
That only says that in approximately 14 percent of troubled relationships,
the
woman lied about the paternity of a child (or was mistaken)...in
approximately
86 percent of these relationships, the husband IS the biological father, and
nothing whatsoever can be construed about the sexual behavior, or possible
misbehavior, of the wife in the relationship...
And this tells us absolutely NOTHING regarding the population as a whole...
unless the 2000 Census takers also demand blood samples from each and every
citizen, we have no way of knowing what percentage of fathers amongst the
general population are indeed the biological fathers...
Indeed, this study was conducted in Great Britain, and as such can only be
applied to approximately 14 percent of troubled relationships in that
country,
and tells us absolutely nothing about actual paternity in other countries.
> In history, fathers have killed offspring they believed to be biologically
> not theirs. Since the primal drive is to spread one's DNA,
Perhaps for men. Women look for more in a relationship than to spread DNA.
> a man would not
> want to expend economic and emotional resources to bring up a child not
his.
Explain that to all the stepfathers and adoptive fathers in the world.
> For once, scientific progress (DNA matching) on a mandatory basis could
> actually serve to solidify marriages and provide a better emotional
climate
> for children if other husbands felt the same way I do.
Fine. I hope all the chippies that end up with kids when these married
fathers
decide to have an extramarital fling also take advantage of this mandatory
DNA
testing you're so fond of.
I suspect that if everyone everywhere were required to submit to these DNA
tests,
that perhaps we may find that indeed approximately 14 percent of married
women
have been unfaithful to their spouses, while 86 percent have been faithful
(or at
least weren't stupid enough to get pregnant whilst having their fling)...but
that
we'd find the numbers inverted for men, IOW we'd find that approximately 86
percent of married men had had extramarital affairs, while only 14 percent
had
remained faithful (or at least weren't stupid enough to get another woman
pregnant
with their child)...
June
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