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From: kolwicz@aluxz.UUCP (kolwicz)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How do you get a boy?
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 00:10:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 00:10:08 1985
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Whoops!  I went and checked, and contrary to my previous posting,
the odds are slightly in favor of you having a boy.  Consider:


    YEAR        Male Births       Female Births   M/F Ratio *
    ----        -----------       -------------   ---------
    1960         2,179,708          2,078,142      1.049
    1970         1,915,378          1,816,008      1.055
    1980         1,852,616          1,759,642      1.053

On the other hand, from 1970 to 1978 the ratio of males to females
in the entire U.S. population was 0.95 (that's the statistic I was
recalling, albeit incorrectly.)  The ratio is probably still 0.95 or
so - the 1970-78 statistics were all I could get my hands on quickly.

Maybe there IS a way to favor a male birth - however, there's nothing
wrong in winding up with girls. **

 * Source: "The World Almanac and Book of Facts",  Doubleday.

** Except that maybe you'll be guilty of selective memory, occasionally.

Kevin Kolwicz
AT&T Bell Labs, Allentown PA