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Because more people today are probably more familiar with 23andMe so it's simple way of explaining it that people would understand.
by nightfly 7y ago
Because more people today are probably more familiar with 23andMe so it's simple way of explaining it that people would understand.
- DoctorOetker 7y agothe mission statement for a pop sci author should be to educate the public, this means not dumbing down. the only avoidable reason it's more familiar to the public is because of all the previous pop sci authors preferring to say 23andMe instead of "genome sequencing" and "genome analysis" etc if enough pop sci articles stop dumbing down the public would better understand what this is all about...
- sprafa 7y agoI don’t see how that’s some kind of horrific simplification...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt's an ad, and also kind of like calling making yourself french fries a "McDonald's-style process". Genetics is both popular-culture topic and part of high school curriculum nowadays, so it doesn't need too hard explaining, and the kind of person that wouldn't understand the explanation probably also doesn't know what 23andMe is (which reinforces this being a sneaky ad).
- DoctorOetker 7y ago(upvoted but) also like calling making yourself fries making yourself "french" fries :P
- TeMPOraL 7y agoHah, sorry. I was taught that this was the correct universal way of calling this type of food across all varieties of English.
- DoctorOetker 7y agojust to be clear, I think the rest of the article is fascinating and nothing else immediately disturbed me about it, it's just feedback in case the author checks HN