On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:07:13PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >Actually birthdays (or more precisely the events that lead up to
> >them) are actually sufficiently unrandom that the odds with 23
> >people are well over 50%
> 
> certainly there are characteristics that affect when people are born
> (yes, there are a lot less people with a birthday of february 29), but
> do you have any hard data that suggests the spread of birthdays over
> days of the year is sharply slanted in any direction?

Christmas has a significant effect all by itself (at least in the UK).
Other holiday periods have similar effects.

Unfortunately I don't have any lists of birthdays...

	David

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