All you ... PEOPLE who support breed bans: Let's Play FIND THE PIT BULL!!

[baldguy]

116. "The saliva test is unreliable". On what basis do you make that claim?

Nice drive by accusation, there. For the second time: Prove It. Until then, we can assume you have bupkis & we can rely on the accuracy of the DNA testing.


As to the breed distribution represented in the survey, it's not intended to represent the breed distribution of all dogs everywhere. They were selected from four north Florida animal shelters to represent the range of breed types available in animal shelters. NOT the distribution of breed types available in the shelters. (If that was the case, nearly all the dogs would have been phenotypical "Pit Bulls".)

I'm sure you understand the difference between a populations range and its distribution, don't you?

I also see that you didn't notice that there are only 100 dogs pictured on the link provided - not 119. You made this mistake in spite of the number "100" being referenced to repeatedly on the survey web site. If you can't even count your sample size, why should we take your statistical analysis seriously?

The point of the survey isn't the dogs anyway. The researchers could have used any size sample and any population of dogs. The objective of the survey was to test the accuracy of the professionals ability to identify an individual dogs breed visually. Which the web page states openly:

Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, and frequently without pedigrees to describe their heritage. The breeds of dogs with unknown or mixed-breed lineages are frequently guessed based on their physical appearance, but it is not known how accurate these visual breed assessments are.

We conducted a national survey of dog experts to compare their best guesses for the breeds of dogs in a series of photographs. These visual assessments were compared to DNA breed profiles for the dogs.

The surveys methodology is sufficient the determine this.