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	<title>Comments on: Is there scientific evidence to suggest that in multiple births, sexes are born in clumps?</title>
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		<title>By: 1Oᴄᴀᴎᴇ [ℕoʀℂɑʟ ~ ④①⑤]</title>
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		<description>Luck of the draw.

During any given pregnancy a woman has the exact same chance of giving birth to a boy as she does a girl. Since you're asking about birth *order* rather than the total number of boys and girls a woman gives birth to, we have to look at each individual pregnancy.

Pregnancy #1: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.
Had a boy.

Pregnancy #2: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.
Had a boy.

Pregnancy #3: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.
Had a boy.

Pregnancy #4: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.
Had a girl.

Since we're looking at each pregnancy individually, we cannot say that she's more likely to have a girl than a boy simply because she's already had 'x' number of boys.

Now we CAN say that OVERALL, she should have 50% male children and 50% female children. The woman actually has 75% male children and 25% female. Why? Small sample size. Just as it wouldn't be odd to have flipped 3 heads and only 1 tails in four coin flips, it wouldn't be odd to have 3 sons and only 1 daughter in four pregnancies. If the woman were to have 100 children where 75 were male and only 25 were female, then that would indeed be more than just a coincidence chalked up to sample size.&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Luck of the draw.</p>
<p>During any given pregnancy a woman has the exact same chance of giving birth to a boy as she does a girl. Since you&#8217;re asking about birth *order* rather than the total number of boys and girls a woman gives birth to, we have to look at each individual pregnancy.</p>
<p>Pregnancy #1: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.<br />
Had a boy.</p>
<p>Pregnancy #2: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.<br />
Had a boy.</p>
<p>Pregnancy #3: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.<br />
Had a boy.</p>
<p>Pregnancy #4: 50% chance for a boy, 50% chance for a girl.<br />
Had a girl.</p>
<p>Since we&#8217;re looking at each pregnancy individually, we cannot say that she&#8217;s more likely to have a girl than a boy simply because she&#8217;s already had &#8216;x&#8217; number of boys.</p>
<p>Now we CAN say that OVERALL, she should have 50% male children and 50% female children. The woman actually has 75% male children and 25% female. Why? Small sample size. Just as it wouldn&#8217;t be odd to have flipped 3 heads and only 1 tails in four coin flips, it wouldn&#8217;t be odd to have 3 sons and only 1 daughter in four pregnancies. If the woman were to have 100 children where 75 were male and only 25 were female, then that would indeed be more than just a coincidence chalked up to sample size.<br /><b>References : </b></p>
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