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JQP4545
03-04-2014, 05:35 PM
I noticed these results on Eurogenes:

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 84.1% English + 15.9% French_Basque @ 1.84
2 95.3% Cornish + 4.7% Tuscan @ 2.52
3 93.2% Cornish + 6.8% ES @ 2.54
4 94.7% Cornish + 5.3% French_Basque @ 2.55
5 93.5% Cornish + 6.5% PT @ 2.56
6 88.5% Cornish + 11.5% FR @ 2.57
7 97.9% Cornish + 2.1% Sardinian @ 2.6
8 97.4% Cornish + 2.6% South_Italian_&_Sicilian @ 2.64
9 98.5% Cornish + 1.5% Druze @ 2.66
10 96.3% Cornish + 3.7% North_Italian @ 2.68

Why does Cornish = English + Basque?

Argang
03-04-2014, 05:55 PM
I noticed these results on Eurogenes:

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 84.1% English + 15.9% French_Basque @ 1.84
2 95.3% Cornish + 4.7% Tuscan @ 2.52
3 93.2% Cornish + 6.8% ES @ 2.54
4 94.7% Cornish + 5.3% French_Basque @ 2.55
5 93.5% Cornish + 6.5% PT @ 2.56
6 88.5% Cornish + 11.5% FR @ 2.57
7 97.9% Cornish + 2.1% Sardinian @ 2.6
8 97.4% Cornish + 2.6% South_Italian_&_Sicilian @ 2.64
9 98.5% Cornish + 1.5% Druze @ 2.66
10 96.3% Cornish + 3.7% North_Italian @ 2.68

Why does Cornish = English + Basque?

The oracle just tries to represent someone's results as the closest combination of two population averages.

Cornish sample there is more "atlantic" than English sample (which I presume is from east England), and therefore can be represented in the oracle as a combination of an English main component and a secondary Basque (who are considerably more "atlantic" than the British Isles) component.

I'd say that atlantic-ness in Cornish represents lower continental germanic influence in comparison to eastern England more than a significant French connection.