How small is statistically noise?

[User50]

If you get less than 0.1% SSA on a DNA test, is thus usually real? What about a larger total like 0.3%? I'd assume anything 0.5% or higher would almost always be real. Is this correct?

[Wrong]

Yeah.

It's real, especially if it is SSA as it is incredibly difficult to wash away.

[Voskos]

The one drop rule is widely accepted among the scientific community.

[User50]

I'm asking this because there was an Albanian test on here that got <0.1% SSA. I was rather intrigued by the idea of a European having SSA.

I didn't get SSA in an ancestry test myself, if that's what anybody's wondering. In fact, I've never actually done an ancestry test.

[Leto]

<0.1% SSA is definitely not real.

[Iloko]

1%+ is what can usually be taken seriously

[Leto]

There is a white American woman on another forum, she got 0.7% SSA on 23andme, but on GM calculators she gets less than that, pretty much at a noise level. So go figure.

[Norb]

what is the rule across all testing 1%?

[Kouros]

I'm asking this because there was an Albanian test on here that got <0.1% SSA. I was rather intrigued by the idea of a European having SSA.

I didn't get SSA in an ancestry test myself, if that's what anybody's wondering. In fact, I've never actually done an ancestry test.
I dont believe in "noise". 23andme told me I'm 99.9% Euro with <0.1% Oceanian and I believe them. <0.1% SSA isnt really unheard of for albanians or any other Balkan country for that matter anyway.

[MysteriousWays]

Noise... <~1% I think is noise.

[Petalpusher]

Depends on the calculator, at high K probably anything higher than 0.2 is real/recent, at low K less so.

[Bogdan]

<1%

[Token]

Anything under 1% should not be taken seriously

[Leto]

On some (actually many) calculators even 1+ percent may mean nothing. I've seen Russians and other Eastern and Central Europeans scoring 1 or more % African and Oceanian. I myself get over 2% Red Sea on K13 and about the same amount of Amerindian which is obviously not to be taken seriously. I don't have a drop of actual Middle Eastern and native American blood. Those calculators are full of inaccuracies which still doesn't mean they are useless.