The knee-jerk reaction would be to say that these demographics have less money to spend on genetic tests. Or is it that they have less interest in science-y things? Ideas?
Sunday, August 4, 2013
23 and Me
Marisa and I sent in our samples, but we're still waiting on the analysis. In the meantime I've been filling out various surveys from which 23 and We can do correlation studies. One of them asked me to self-identify my ethnic background. At the conclusion of the survey, they show the aggregate data from all surveys:
What's interesting here is that both Hispanic and black are about half-represented compared to the national demographics. I wonder why this is?
The knee-jerk reaction would be to say that these demographics have less money to spend on genetic tests. Or is it that they have less interest in science-y things? Ideas?
The knee-jerk reaction would be to say that these demographics have less money to spend on genetic tests. Or is it that they have less interest in science-y things? Ideas?
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