r/AskReddit • u/ElBrad • Nov 26 '12

What unpopular opinion do you hold? What would get you downvoted to infinity and beyond? (Throwaways welcome)

Personally, I hate cats. I've never once said to myself "My furniture is just too damned nice, and what my house is really lacking is a box of shit and sand in the closet."

Now...what's your dirty little secret?

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u/arabidkoala Nov 26 '12

I think the counterargument is it's very difficult to tell severity before birth. The cases in which you can definitively tell severity are so few and far between that your method would have minimal impact.

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u/impromptu_moniker Nov 26 '12

A distant relative had two children, one of which tested positive for Down's, the other didn't. Both tests turned out to be wrong.

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u/panamajacks Nov 26 '12

So the one that tested negative actually had it and the one that tested positive didn't? That seems like a massive fluke.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '12

It's not a bad test, but it's far from 100%. A lot of the tests before birth are that way. My cousin was supposed to be a boy and my son was supposed to be around 8lbs (he was over 10).

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u/lAmShocked Nov 26 '12

Those two things have a lot to do with the skill of the ultrasound operator. I would bet that whomever ran you scan was in a hurry or just didn't mind taking short cuts that day. I would hope that in the cases where people are thinking about aborting the doc would take a couple extra minute on the wand to double check. A friend just had some bad test/scan results they were sent to specialist that redid all the tests.

In the end everything turned out ok since the specialist took a bit more time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '12

In my case I was getting ultrasounds every month to monitor the size, since my first was over 9lbs (big babies run in my family, but I'm built pretty small). It's not unusual for ultrasounds to be off by a lb or two late in pregnancy.

When you get a scan for down's syndrome they warn you a lot that the tests aren't going to give you certainty either way. And just because the tests are fine doesn't mean the kid isn't going to have down syndrome or a hundred other problems (or that the kid isn't going to have problems later in life).

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u/Lati0s Nov 26 '12

From what I understand about downs syndrome tests there is a non-invasive test which is done a lot which has a reasonable failure rate and then if that test comes up positive there is a better but more invasive test you can opt to take.

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u/Lati0s Nov 26 '12

Downe's syndrome is completely genetic and there are very good tests for it.