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to be fair to all the idiots out there, if that ancestor wasn't her mother, she's got a credibility problem, right? This is less about science and math than politics.
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It's consistent with an (ethnically) Cherokee great-great-grandmother (4 generations back), which is what she always claimed IIRC. eg: John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee in the mid-19th century, was 7/8th white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief) …
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and to be further fair to them, i imagine some of them tweeted the 1024 number because that was the only number in one of the Globe's corrections (I think?). a later correction introduced a range?
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Globe reported 1/32 to 1/512 because they're innumerate; correction fixed the 1/512 but mysteriously didn't mention the 1/32, a bunch of idiots jumped on the corrected 1/1024 as if it were the only number because fuckers don't read.
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distributions are 10x harder to grok than a single hard number :(
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In the Grokking Dept, journalists themselves are severely disadvantaged.
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