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**wmhardware** · 11-02-2011, 09:14 PM

It seems like a lot of people say this all the time as if it were some kind of fact. Where are they getting this from? Anecdotal evidence I assume. Well we all know that anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all.

According to 23andMe "While much has been written about European ancestry among African Americans whatâ€™s less well known is how many Americans, like me, who consider themselves white also have African ancestry.

Researchers at 23andMe looked at the genetic ancestry of about 78,000 customers likely to consider themselves as entirely of European ancestry and found that somewhere between 3 percent and 4 percent of those people have â€œhiddenâ€ African ancestry.

The percent of African ancestry is relatively low with the majority of individuals having just 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent â€” which suggests that those people have an African ancestor who lived about six generations, or about 200 years, ago."

That is right. Between 3 and 4 percent of European descended Americans are mixed that weren't aware of it. When you are mixed you know it typically. I wonder what the numbers are for people who think they are mixed(i.e. "my great grandfather was a Sioux") and in reality are not.

http://spittoon.23andme.com/2011/09/...try/#more-9733

White Americans are not mixed in any serious numbers at all.

11-02-2011, 09:14 PM	#1
wmhardware Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 462 Senior Member	Americans are all mixed It seems like a lot of people say this all the time as if it were some kind of fact. Where are they getting this from? Anecdotal evidence I assume. Well we all know that anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. According to 23andMe "While much has been written about European ancestry among African Americans whatâ€™s less well known is how many Americans, like me, who consider themselves white also have African ancestry. Researchers at 23andMe looked at the genetic ancestry of about 78,000 customers likely to consider themselves as entirely of European ancestry and found that somewhere between 3 percent and 4 percent of those people have â€œhiddenâ€ African ancestry. The percent of African ancestry is relatively low with the majority of individuals having just 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent â€” which suggests that those people have an African ancestor who lived about six generations, or about 200 years, ago." That is right. Between 3 and 4 percent of European descended Americans are mixed that weren't aware of it. When you are mixed you know it typically. I wonder what the numbers are for people who think they are mixed(i.e. "my great grandfather was a Sioux") and in reality are not. http://spittoon.23andme.com/2011/09/...try/#more-9733 White Americans are not mixed in any serious numbers at all.
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