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Hi Louis, as my username probably gives away, I'm the first author of Speed and Balding (not to be confused with that terrible work from Speed and Baldwin infodoc rightly dismisses ;) ). I don't follow the ISOOG blog, but a colleague alerted me to your blog post Firstly, I'm incredibly flattered if it's true ...

Louis, Thank you for this analysis and post - a tremendous service to the genetic genealogy community! We need someone like you with the math skills to help us understand and properly use the Speed and Balding paper. I had reluctantly accepted the way others had interpreted their widely seen Chart. But it just ...

Louis, On an intuitive level, your analysis and conclusions have a ring of truth that I have found lacking in Speed and Baldwin. You present a much more encouraging picture for genetic genealogists!

Thanks for replying Louis. There is a draft document almost ready for public comment, but not quite. As each of those documents reaches a coherent level then they'll be released for comment, and those titles will be turned into hyperlinks.

I know it's a good while since this post, Louis, but do you think it's worth another look. Admittedly, FHISO has undergone several changes -- including a major team change and the scaling down of the original organisational structure -- but they've since published a new strategy and draft standards for public ...

No I think it means the opposite. FTDNA can't use a higher threshold because they are not using phasing or any algorithms to remove pile-ups. The vast majority of matches that don't match either parent at AncestryDNA share under 9 cMs. Ancestry's own tests published in their white paper show that we would ...