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Originally posted by sigfreund:
And the responses here are unlikely to be random either. If I saw someone post my birthdate, I would be more likely to say, “Me, too,” than I would be to just wander in, look around, and move on to other things. We are looking at far more than the first 70 people who post, but rather the entire block of people who view the thread.

It’s like any other poll: Allowing self-selected respondents skews things significantly.

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Originally posted by soflaac:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Interesting. The math part makes sense.



I wonder how it's affected by when people have sex. More people have sex in winter (nothing else better to do) so there are more summer/fall babies.

Reminds me of the time I was visiting an Air Force buddy who was stationed up in the UP (K I Sawyer). We crossed the Mackinac Bridge, pulled into a gas station to fuel up. Station wagon pulled up near us, dude got out, like 5 kids of assorted ages get out, wife gets out & she's obviously pregnant.

I looked at my buddy "What the hell, man?"

He shrugs his shoulders "Long winters"

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
And the responses here are unlikely to be random either. If I saw someone post my birthdate, I would be more likely to say, “Me, too,” than I would be to just wander in, look around, and move on to other things. We are looking at far more than the first 70 people who post, but rather the entire block of people who view the thread.

It’s like any other poll: Allowing self-selected respondents skews things significantly.

It would be interesting to try this same test but use wedding anniversaries...or perhaps our parent's wedding anniversaries would be more pertinent.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by mark60:
Sept 30

Bang, game over. I'm end of third quarter too.

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Originally posted by zipriderson:

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
And the responses here are unlikely to be random either. If I saw someone post my birthdate, I would be more likely to say, “Me, too,” than I would be to just wander in, look around, and move on to other things. We are looking at far more than the first 70 people who post, but rather the entire block of people who view the thread.

It’s like any other poll: Allowing self-selected respondents skews things significantly.

It would be interesting to try this same test but use wedding anniversaries...or perhaps our parent's wedding anniversaries would be more pertinent.

Should be the same. As long as the number of choices is 365, the math works the same.

For example, you could ask 23 people to blindly pick one sock out of a box which contains 365 differently colored socks. Odds are 50% at least two pick the same color (assuming they all have the 365 items available to them to choose).

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
And the responses here are unlikely to be random either. If I saw someone post my birthdate, I would be more likely to say, “Me, too,” than I would be to just wander in, look around, and move on to other things. We are looking at far more than the first 70 people who post, but rather the entire block of people who view the thread.

It’s like any other poll: Allowing self-selected respondents skews things significantly.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
February the 17.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Anyone here also born on the Winter Solstice?

flashguy

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Originally posted by Southflorida-law:
I was coming home one evening from work. Put on my blinker and start slowing down to turn onto my street and a guy in a brand new Benz AMG runs right into the back of my truck. We had the same birthday (different years) What is the chance of that?

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Anyone here also born on the Winter Solstice?

flashguy

Not me, but which one?
(There are four days of the calendar when the winter solstice can occur: two in the northern hemisphere; two in the southern)