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I didn’t buy a test, because my brother did. Why pay $100 to get the same story twice?

• cmauniada 7y ago
  Although it would be funny if your results were different than your brother's.
• neivin 7y ago
  I didn't buy the test because all it would say would be "Congrats! You are 100% asian." I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to. It's not that useful for me. I've had friends do it and get 99.97% Chinese or Indian. Amazing, I could have told you that for free.
  • some-guy 7y ago
    As a 3rd generation white person in the US, what specific European ancestry I have is meaningless to me. I find the health tests to be more interesting than the ancestry, though it was a bit scary though having to click through all the warnings to get to the results.
    • jamesrcole 7y ago
      > what specific [ancestry] I have is meaningless to me. it's ultimately probably not important, but I would think that it's at least something to be curious about.
  • jamesrcole 7y ago
    > I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to. I'm not familiar with the kinds of ancestry information they can provide, but why would that only apply to white people? Why not also, say, people with African heritage and which of the African countries they have ties to?
• rconti 7y ago
  ... and if you got a different story, you might wish you hadn't spent $100...
• stevenwoo 7y ago
  It probably would have been different, based on other stories of twins that have been on hackernews or siblings in other news reports (the % ethnic background should be considered a guestimate) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938750