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	<description>For the love of letters</description>
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		<title>By: Sharath Rao</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6557</link>
		<dc:creator>Sharath Rao</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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 :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/whats-the-significance-of-your-sign-a-guest-post/#more-2152" rel="nofollow">http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/whats-the-significance-of-your-sign-a-guest-post/#more-2152</a></p>
<p>Looks like this bday analysis is the in-thing this winter <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Blue</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6553</link>
		<dc:creator>Blue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even more interestingly, I&#039;ve found out that a good third of the people in my department (theatre) share the same astrological sign.

Scorpio, if you&#039;re curious.

The rest are evenly distributed, but there&#039;s a preponderance of us mysterious Scorpios, for whatever reason.  (Which is just to say that we&#039;re a bunch of winter births, as noted above.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even more interestingly, I&#8217;ve found out that a good third of the people in my department (theatre) share the same astrological sign.</p>
<p>Scorpio, if you&#8217;re curious.</p>
<p>The rest are evenly distributed, but there&#8217;s a preponderance of us mysterious Scorpios, for whatever reason.  (Which is just to say that we&#8217;re a bunch of winter births, as noted above.)</p>
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		<title>By: Sharath Rao</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6512</link>
		<dc:creator>Sharath Rao</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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 !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this has been my equilibrium layout &#8230;after all the tumult of having x layouts in y days, i come back to this one &#8230;my comfort zone too you know !</p>
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		<title>By: Joy</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6509</link>
		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re back with the old look! :)

Feels like I&#039;m back in the comfort zone. Navigating through the new look was like wading through unfamiliar, new territory  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re back with the old look! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Feels like I&#8217;m back in the comfort zone. Navigating through the new look was like wading through unfamiliar, new territory  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Randomizer</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6508</link>
		<dc:creator>Randomizer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>17% ! :(

BTW I&#039;ve drawn up stats for my class of &#039;98 ... over on my blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>17% ! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>BTW I&#8217;ve drawn up stats for my class of &#8216;98 &#8230; over on my blog.</p>
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		<title>By: Are birthdays evenly distributed across the year? &#171; Realm Of Randomness</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6507</link>
		<dc:creator>Are birthdays evenly distributed across the year? &#171; Realm Of Randomness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 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 &#8216;97 - and found that there were 28 birthdays in the first half as opposed [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 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 &#8216;97 &#8211; and found that there were 28 birthdays in the first half as opposed [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Sharath Rao</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6504</link>
		<dc:creator>Sharath Rao</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tangential point - this sentence from the article was kinda shocking - 

&quot;Our study did not include abortions and still births, estimated at 17% of all births(9).&quot; 


17% ???????????????

This is another study on football players - 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tangential point &#8211; this sentence from the article was kinda shocking &#8211; </p>
<p>&#8220;Our study did not include abortions and still births, estimated at 17% of all births(9).&#8221; </p>
<p>17% ???????????????</p>
<p>This is another study on football players &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Randomizer</title>
		<link>http://sharathrao.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/birthday-distribution/#comment-6503</link>
		<dc:creator>Randomizer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I searched the web and I got another source to support by so-called hypothesis :P http://www.indianpediatrics.net/march-306-312.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I searched the web and I got another source to support by so-called hypothesis <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  <a href="http://www.indianpediatrics.net/march-306-312.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.indianpediatrics.net/march-306-312.htm</a></p>
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