After being egged on by President Trump, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the results of a DNA test Oct. 15 that indicated that she had a Native American ancestor.
The results — which identified Native American DNA from six to 10 generations ago — were immediately misinterpreted.
It started with a Boston Globe report, which initially indicated that the test showed she was at best 1/32nd Native American and possibly just 1/512th Native American. After confessing twice to a math error, the Globe corrected the numbers to 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American. That would translate to between 98.44 percent and 99.9 percent not Native American.
Analysis | Just about everything you’ve read on the Warren DNA test is wrong
Reporters and politicians rushed to say the test shows she was only 1/1024th Native American. But that’s a huge misinterpretation of the data.
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