My 700 million children
According to the New York Times, if a man believes himself to be the biological father of a child, then he is right over 98% of the time. On the other hand, when he believes himself not to be the biological father of a child, he is wrong 70% of the time.
Using the most extensive data on nonpaternity rates assembled to date, the researchers tentatively concluded that men confident about their paternity are usually right: they are biologically unrelated only 1.7 percent to 3.7 percent of the time.Okay, so there are approximately 1 billion children, worldwide, who I would insist are not my biological children. If I'm wrong 70% of the time...
Those who insist they are not the fathers, on the other hand, are in fact the biological fathers in more than 70 percent of cases, a figure derived from data released by paternity testing laboratories.
posted by Daryl McCullough
2 Comments:
You know, somehow women are just so much better at knowing who their children are and are not.
In her standup routine, comedian Sandra Bernhardt used to say: "A little about myself. I'm 23, single, no children...at least none that I know of <wink>."
Wow, it's a real pain to print less-than, greater-than in HTML.
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