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December 5[edit]

Distribution by birthday[edit]

Are there any references available for %births by day of the year, either globally or preferably by country? (Is there a peak 9 months after Dec 25 or ...? -- SGBailey (talk) 07:38, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I posted some data for the US at the bottom of this thread in 2006. Unfortunately the link to "this article" at ScienceNews no longer works. --69.159.60.147 (talk) 09:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This Indy article has some information for the UK.--Phil Holmes (talk) 10:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This data is by raw rank, not % on each day. Still looking. --Jayron 32 13:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article [1] gives some data about the US (by month, rather than by day) and compares it with Japan - where a preference for spring weddings seems to have an effect. There are also some UN data tables [2] showing births per month for a lot of countries (though not for all - some may not be keeping the data). China and India are not on the list, but it would be interesting to compare areas with different religions, climates and hemispheres to see what effect that might have. Wymspen (talk) 13:15, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No one but teens, college students, and people in non-Western countries have sex on Dec 25. (Those were the days!) Parents are too tired from the night before and getting up at dawn, and adults are too full and/or drunk after 4pm. μηδείς (talk) 02:43, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Most college students are home for the holidays and staying in their childhood bedroom with their parents in the next room. Christmas day sex would be a bit tough on the family dynamic... --Jayron 32 13:06, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I grew up in a more liberal area with larger houses. Then there was that Christmas when my parents went to Mexico, and they wondered why I didn't go with them. In any case, my point was that if the idea is that most people are bunnying their brains out on the 25th, it ignores parents being overstuffed and worn out. My dad's favorite tactic was to get my mom drunk on the boat, but that was from may to september, since the boat was on the Great Bay. μηδείς (talk) 19:50, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]