News You'll never guess who Obama us related to.

[jreelawg]

It wasn't that long ago that it was discovered that President Obama was related to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Now comes the claim that the president is related to none other than former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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And if that weren't weird enough, Tyler is also claiming that conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh is also a 10th cousin of President Obama, once removed.
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According to the Associated Press report, the site also is reporting that President George W. Bush is also related to Obama and Palin.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/was...elated-to-sarah-palin-rush-limbaugh-bush.html

 

[jreelawg]

See a resemblance?

 

[Char. Limit]

Before saying anything...

What are the odds that two people are within tenth cousins of one another?

 

[drizzle]

This should be posted in the lame jokes thread!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I didn't check this for accuracy as that is left as an exercise for the student.

...Turns out that’s almost nil. Like the famous birthday paradox, where a room of 30 people usually has 2 who share a birthday, the probability there is no intersection in these large groups is quite low. it is 99.9999% likely from these numbers that any given person is at least a 16th cousin. And 97.2% likely that they are a 15th cousin — but only 1.4% likely that they are an 11th cousin. It’s a double exponential explosion. The rough formula used is that the probability of no match will be (1-2^C/P)^(2^C) where C is the cousin number and P is the total source population. To be strict this should be done with factorials but the numbers are large enough that pure exponentials work...

http://ideas.4brad.com/everybody-your-16th-cousin

 

[Evo]

A tenth cousin once removed? How remotely related is that? Wouldn't that be pushing things? I wonder how many giant leaps of faith the "ancestry" person had to make? Sounds like nothing other than a publicity stunt for the website.

 

[Al68]

See a resemblance?

I heard Bush may be related to both Jesus and Bin Ladin:

 

[Pengwuino]

I didn't check this for accuracy as that is left as an exercise for the student.

Ivan you share a blood line with George W. Bush.

Just thought you'd like to know.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ivan you share a blood line with George W. Bush.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Hi Cuz!
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[Siv]

Char.Limit makes a good point. If we go far back enough, many people may be related.
Actually we all are We share a common ancestor.

 

[Char. Limit]

Thank you, Siv.