Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why is WikiPedia so slow?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 1/8/06, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > So this brings into question to me, how can any of this DNA stuff be 
> > trusted? How much of the existing research today is based on faulty 
> > research of yesterday, probably very little I admit, but these are 
> > questions that I have and while I could go out and study and find out 
> > the answers, I do not have the time, intelligence, nor the willpower to 
> > do that.
>
> A really quick answer here:  DNA evidence is tremendously useful to 
> *exclude* people from being the perp.  If my DNA "fingerprint" doesn't 
> match the one from the crime scene, the game is over; it wasn't my DNA. 
> If it does match, the likelihood that it was me goes up, sometimes waaay 
> up.  How far up?  Well, that depends on having an appropriate 
> statistical model, and how many markers you can recover from the crime 
> scene sample, and a bunch of other things.


Right.  And if the guy has an identical twin.

The thing is, today, if the forensic DNA sample is good enough, you can 
lock it down to a virtual absolute that it was the suspect and no one 
else, unless he has an identical twin that might have committed the crime.

Speaking of evil twins:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/bgnews/2005/msg00204.html

Clever.

Mike

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