There are lots of scientists analyzing existing databases of information, but very few who are actually going out there and testing.dawwa9 wrote:James,James Dahl wrote:This sort of testing will actually answer a lot more questions than the limited studies undertaken thus far. I applaud you guys, vanguards at the front of scientific inquiry
Regardless of what others may say, there have not been enough studies actually to answer what the expected results will be, we are entering truly un-explored territory.
The Danish study of 201 Somalis was only of Danish Somalis, who for all we know could all have been from the same clan.
How come there isn’t even one single university on this globe that is interested in testing Somalis by clan. I have seen haplogroup analyses done on Europeans groups such as the Irish where over 5,000 people got tested. Why is this not possible for Somalis?
Taking into account the civil war and all wouldn’t this be an extremely interesting anthropological endeavor?
This is quite common in the scientific community, because it's cheaper, easier and lazier to just do data analysis than to go out there and get data.
The vast majority of existing Y-DNA data has been "passively" collected, in other words people have paid for the test with their own money with a testing company or organization, and then made those results available to researchers by signing the release form. This has skewed results so that America for instance is VASTLY over-represented. The population of America for instance is only about 5% of the world's population, but about 95% of the Y-DNA test results in existence are from America.
This is why you get the bizarre circumstance where extremely rare branches of J2 that ended up in England have tons more existing data samples than extremely common branches of J2 in Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
