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| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | [[Ponytail]] [[1839|continues]] [[Cueball]]'s medical checkup with a genetic test. {{w|Genetic test}}s show people genetic diseases that they might be at risk for and/or give them insight into their ancestry. In this case, the genetic results are extremely obvious: His genes are part of a long line of genes stretching back to some of the earliest life forms to have genes. This information is universally true - ''every'' known organism has such a genetic history - which makes it so vague as to be useless for either medicine or ancestry.
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− | In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. The title text says that this is a risk factor because being a living organism is, trivially, associated with every disease that exists. | + | This comic is similar to the previous one, as in both comics a doctor tells a patient something that is true for all living human beings, which is humorous. In fact, the drawing is extremely similar to Panel 1 of the previous comic. |
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| + | The title text says that this is a risk factor because every living human being is susceptible to various risks. |
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[Cueball is seated on an medical examination table while Ponytail stands dressed in a doctor's coat holding a file in her right hand.]
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− | :Ponytail: Your genetic test results are back. Apparently you're part of an unbroken lineage stretching back billions of years to the early Earth!
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− | ==Trivia==
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− | *Randall has previously joked about what should be the obvious results of genetic testing in [[830: Genetic Analysis]].
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− | *Randall makes a similar joke in the title text to [[674: Natural Parenting]]: "On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure [having kids] out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases."
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| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
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− | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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− | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
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− | [[Category:Doctor Ponytail]]
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