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Assume that which of the two children answers the door is determined by chance. Then the procedure was (1) pick a two-child family at random from all two-child families (2) pick one of the two children at random, (3) see if it is a boy and ask on what day he was born. The chance the other child is a girl is 1 / 2 . This is a very ...
For a greater than 50% chance that at least one other person in a roomful of n people has the same birthday as you, n would need to be at least 253. This number is significantly higher than 365 / 2 = 182.5 : the reason is that it is likely that there are some birthday matches among the other people in the room.
[19] [18] [note 2] Thus, if a male with no older brothers has a 2% chance of being homosexual and the fraternal birth order effect increases those chances by 33% for each older brother, then a male with one older brother has a 2.6% chance of being homosexual; a male with two older brothers has a 3.5% chance, and males with three and four older ...
Did you know that the odds of being born on Feb. 29 are about 1 in 1,461, equaling about 5 million people in the whole world?. Being a leap day baby means you are part of a small and exclusive ...
The odds of spontaneous quintuplets are about one in 60 million. ... Saylor Kate was born at 1:28 p.m. weighing one pound, 11.9 ounces. Allie Ray was born at 1:30 p.m. weighing one pound, 12.6 ...
The chances of being born on a Leap Day, Feb. 29, are only one in 1,461 or .068%, as Leap Year comes only once every four years. People born on Leap Day are referred to as “leaplings” or ...
The self-indication assumption doomsday argument rebuttal is an objection to the doomsday argument (that there is only a 5% chance of more than twenty times the historic number of humans ever being born) by arguing that the chance of being born is not one, but is an increasing function of the number of people who will be born.
Between the 1960s and 2000, many newborn and infant boys were surgically reassigned as females if they were born with malformed penises, or if they lost their penises in accidents. [3]: 72–73 Many surgeons believed such males would be happier being socially and surgically reassigned female. In all seven published cases that have provided ...