Birthday distribution December 7, 2007
Posted by Sharath Rao in numbers-in-my-life.trackback
therandomizer in a comment on my earlier post:
In my personal observation, I seem to think that more kids are born in the latter half of the year (esp Sep-Dec) than before …. so it would’ve been interesting to see the stats for the year, though I know it’s too much effort. I think that this has something to do with the eligibility for admission into kindergarten.
From the data for 64 of my high school batchmates that I drew up almost an year ago out of curiosity.
Thats 28 in the first 6 months, 36 in the latter half. So there, therandomzier, too little data but still some supporting evidence I guess. Treat yourself to what – more frequent blog posts ?
Update: therandomizer with more data.
I searched the web and I got another source to support by so-called hypothesis
http://www.indianpediatrics.net/march-306-312.htm
tangential point – this sentence from the article was kinda shocking –
“Our study did not include abortions and still births, estimated at 17% of all births(9).”
17% ???????????????
This is another study on football players –
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html
[...] to be a ton of birthdays around Oct/Nov rather than, say, April/May. He then went on to make a distribution of birthdays from his class of ‘97 – and found that there were 28 birthdays in the first half as opposed [...]
17% !
BTW I’ve drawn up stats for my class of ‘98 … over on my blog.
You’re back with the old look!
Feels like I’m back in the comfort zone. Navigating through the new look was like wading through unfamiliar, new territory
this has been my equilibrium layout …after all the tumult of having x layouts in y days, i come back to this one …my comfort zone too you know !
Even more interestingly, I’ve found out that a good third of the people in my department (theatre) share the same astrological sign.
Scorpio, if you’re curious.
The rest are evenly distributed, but there’s a preponderance of us mysterious Scorpios, for whatever reason. (Which is just to say that we’re a bunch of winter births, as noted above.)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/whats-the-significance-of-your-sign-a-guest-post/#more-2152
Looks like this bday analysis is the in-thing this winter