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Saw this story here.
"When parents were living together before the birth of one child, that child was 14% more likely to be male than when the parents were not living together before the birth," said Karen Norberg, a clinical associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research in the US and the author of the study.
Now, they investigated 86,436 births. So, is a 14% likelihood of anything pretty low and meaningless? Doesn't this mean that there is therefore an 86% likelihood that living with a partner has no effect on the sex of the baby?
A quick google finds that Norberg has, in the past found other incredibly low correlations, such as 'a 2% rise in the divorce rate seems to be matched by a 2-per-100,000 increase in the youth-suicide rate'. Do these small positives really mean anything? |
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