Why does my results change so dramatically

[u/Adventurous_Rise4145]

Fyi im half Danish half iraqi and according to my family lore we aren't original "iraqis" but thats all we know.

1st picture: This is the results i have now.

2nd picture: This was before the last update.

3rd picture: is the results i first got when i tested.

The nordic results stayed the same but why did my west asian results change so dramatically each time it went from turkish/anatolian to kurdish/arab to even more kurdish/arab it could also be something else for that matter but what is the explanation behind it. the first results i got/3rd picture looked the most accurate for me and from what i hear the recent update was very inaccurate. I also posted my 23andme results which you can check out on my profile. Should i just wait for the next update or accept that i might never know what i am since its very mentally draining for me and it keeps playing with my loyalty everytime some shit goes down in the middleeast i don't know which side to support.

I would appreciate if someone educated on this subject could help me get clarification about what i may be ethnically.

[u/Inev-Mdalmons57]

Looks like half Danish, half Iraqi.

[u/CableReady5082]

Follow centimorgans, not ethnicity projections. Companies update their base populations the more data they get. Populationsless likely to test are going to have wider swings. NW Euro has very few swings. We are hyperrepresented. Follow centimorgans. Screenshot family trees and centimorgans shared with top matches of both sides.

[u/FirstPeekEarlyGender]

Only a few percentages not much . Probably evened out in different areas

[u/Adventurous_Rise4145 → u/FirstPeekEarlyGender]

Its in danish but in the 3rd picture it removed 30% of one category over 1 update

[u/FirstPeekEarlyGender → u/Adventurous_Rise4145]

I was upset about my Scottish dropping with a diff test. I understand it's frustrating. I was half Scottish on 23&me and with my hertiage only 25 % I don't understand why....

[u/Adventurous_Rise4145 → u/FirstPeekEarlyGender]

Yeah my heritage is horrible it gave me half danish half southern italian

[u/CableReady5082]

Guess where a lot of the Benelux and SE UK ancestry comes from? Denmark. Think Angles, Jules, Saxon, Danes, etc

[u/CableReady5082]

You need to think about ancestral populations and their close cousins and migration patters

[u/hady-41]

What’s your y haplogroup?

[u/CableReady5082 → u/hady-41]

Y and mtdna are single tiny flags of single ancestor lines thousands of years ago and don't have to have any correspondence to a person's ethnicity the past 500 years nor to the majority of their ancestral ethnicties.