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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  The Wisdom Panel isn’t considered a great test because it’s one of those tests that gather data from a select group and then compares those results against each other. For example, it takes a sample from a certain breed over and over until there is some sort of pattern. This is the way most psychological testing began, you’d take a group of people who doctors believe to have some sort of mental illness, for example schizophrenia, and do a personality profile on them and try to learn how they were like each other and different from the general population. When you had a certain amount of data, it was believed you could then predict who was schizophrenic and who was bipolar by the way they answered the questions. The Wisdom Panel attempts to do the same thing but instead of mental illness, it wants to classify the dogs into breeds. The psychological tests are much more reliable today than they were 50 years ago because there is much more data and tests have been made to check against certain errors. There’s a name for this type of test, (maybe someone else is familiar with testing, can remember it, but I can’t), but it measures itself based upon its own data, and it’s considered
the weakest of all tests. It’s not like the Wisdom panel is worthless, but it doesn’t do what some people think it does; it will not reliably and with 99.9 percent accuracy predict the breed. As time goes on, and more and more DNA samples are added to the data and IF these samples are indeed accurate, meaning that they really are from purebred dogs and from reliable honest breeders, then the overall accuracy of the test goes up, but in my opinion, it will take another 25 years. The Wisdom Panel now can say, that a dog is MOSTLY xyz. |
Well I agree for the most part. But let us look at if the AKC and the CKC shared their database on the DNA database they hold, it might go a heck of a long way towards making the Mars Database and the resultant accuracy much more reliable. Given there is enough information on their database for the Mars testing.
I think that DNA testing is an incredible usefull tool to use in future research on purebreds.
I also think that breeders will need at some point to understand that what we have been breeding as purebreds will most likely have some very small % of other breeds within the DNA make up.
I think this line of research is well worth supporting, and yes I too agree as I have stated before Wisdom Panel and like tests can not be used at this point in time to ascertain a purebred status on any dog.