23andme, or Gedmatch? Which do you love more?

[DanielJ1eH]

Even so different companies will give different results, to what degree depends from individual to individual. I get 65% British and Irish(23andME), 61% British isles(FTDNA) and 53% combined Ireland and Great Britain-38% +15% (Ancestry).

Who is more right is anyone's guess. However much we try and avoid it a certain degree of personal bias will come into what companies' results we like the best. Same with the Gedmatch calculators.
Ultimately what we can ascertain about our unknown ancestry is largely based on making educated stabs at it by looking for consistent/prominent patterns.

How did a Northern European like you end up getting 1% SSA on the Gedrosia K3?

[firemonkey]

How did a Northern European like you end up getting 1% SSA on the Gedrosia K3?

O.75/0.72/0.40 to be precise. Almost certainly noise, if not it's very ancient.

[DanielJ1eH]

O.75/0.72/0.40 to be precise. Almost certainly noise, if not very ancient.

Well would someone who get's 1% be ancient? I mean 1% or 1.50% isnt that far off from 0.75%.

[Insuperable]

Companies have actual labratories. GEDmatch calculators are made by people who could have different agendas.

Job of laboratories is to do genotyping so we can obtain raw data. That is the most objective part. Ancestry analysis based on raw data is a different thing and is done by many people. Just because 23andme has laboratories doesn't make 23andme much more credible when it comes to ancestry analysis. Maybe I am wrong.

[firemonkey]

Are you saying there's some African ancestry there that isn't ancient? I think if so most people would disagree with you. The most African I usually get is North African and even then it's within what's regarded as a noise level.

[DanielJ1eH]

Are you saying there's some African ancestry there that isn't ancient? I think if so most people would disagree with you. The most African I usually get is North African and even then it's within what's regarded as a noise level.

No, no, I'm saying that if someone were to score 1.whatever percent on the K3 calculator who is European, would that be noise?

Even if this person never scores SSA on other calculators?

North African isn't SSA. I get North African as well in very small amounts.

I find it very convienient that each European group on the G3 spreadsheet either scores a full percentage of East Asian or SSA. Some Russians score 10% East Asian.