• muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah and with a big enough database u can get an almost perfect modal of the country and everyones placw in it.

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      1 year ago

      with big enough database you simple have every single person in it. that still doesn’t back up the quote i disputed in any way.

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        1 year ago

        They caught the Bay Area Strangler(or whatever his title was) by finding a dna relative match on one of these services and using that to narrow down suspects. DNA can absolutely be used to narrow things down without just having a direct 1:1 match saying it’s THAT person.

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          1 year ago

          they “narrowed it down” to about 1000 people. that is the case covered by video i linked in my comment above.

          the sentence The fbi estimates they can use dna evidance to single dowm the possible people to 2 or 3 out of the entiriry of the us is still nonsense