Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Boy/Girl Count
Today I found out that my friend Laura H. is having a boy too. (Yeah!) Seems like everyone is having a boy these days. But then I thought of all my blogging friends who have kids. Most of you all have girls (Nancy 2, Melissa S. 2, Jen L. 1, Catherine 1). But most all my friends from church and my grad school friends that are having kids have / are having boys (Krista 3, Laura H. 2, Laura B. 1, The Mills' 4, us 1). Laura H. said it must be the water. Well, it must be the Northern Virginia water. All those having girls are not in NVA. All those having boys are in NVA. This holds true with the Winstons too who have one girl, born in PA, and one boy, born in NVA. But then the Mills' and Larissa screw up my perfectly fit data because the first two of the Mills' boys were born in PA and IN and Larissa's boy was born in PA. But I can still draw some conclusions here: The likelihood of having a girl in NVA is nil. But moving from NVA to PA or IN would not guarantee having a girl either. Maybe MD.... Granted I need a few more data points here (but 20 isn't bad!), but I have some friends who are pregnant and not finding out so I have some more data coming in. Might be able to get some more solid conclusions then.
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Well everyone I know in Indiana that is pregnant or just had a baby this summer is having/had a boy. Sorry to mess up your data set! :)
Hmmm.... Seems like some fishy statisticking somewhere.
This has been the year of the girl baby at our church...absolutely no boys. (However, 2 boys in CA and 1 boy in PA) I'm down with your theory. I just finished The Pact by Jodi P. (and I read My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle). Reminder me to tell you about my e-mail to and from her next time we chat. I also want to talk to you about cloth diapers. And, no, I won't see you on the 23rd=(. We'll be up your way, in Mo'town, meeting Duncan's mom, half way, for the weekend.
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