365 Days of Twinipedia - Day 90

Day Ninety of Twinipedia:

Fact #90

The Gemini study, conducted in England and Wales, looked at over 2500 sets of twins to assess their twin-type. The researchers found that assessing whether same-sex twins are identical or fraternal is not as easy for doctors as it seems.  

"The researchers found that out of the 1302 parents, 191 (14.7%) were misinformed about their same sex twins' zygosity (identical or non-identical)."

That sure is a lot of mislabeled twins.  It seems that in this day-in-age, it would be a lot easier to figure this out but doctors are still getting it wrong pretty regularly.
Another thing that makes us, as fraternal twins that look a ton alike and sound exactly alike, go HMMMMmmmmmmm.  Maybe they were wrong about us too.  


To read more about the findings in this research, go to 
Are my twins identical?  http://www.sciencecodex.com/are_my_twins_identical-86918