And the moon sinks low in Scorpio

[venta]

This is something I've been meaning to experiment with for ages, but never got round to. I've just been reminded of it, because someone posted on a thread elsewhere with the assumption that "birthdays are randomly distributed" - which I've always assumed they're not. For a start, there's always a bit of a clump of birthdays round February/March, which I've always blamed on people having early summer holidays in June.

Now, I'm assuming that unlike, say, musical taste, incidence of birthdays among my friends list will at least be representative of the population as a whole. If not, then we're into the suggestion that being born in a particular month predisposes you to particular behaviours and that smacks of astrology, so I don't like it.

(Yes, I know there are other non-astrological factors which might be relevant, but let's give it a whirl, shall we?)



You're getting no tickyboxes for this, dammit, it's radio or nothing. I refuse to allow people to be born in more than one month.

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Comments

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Heehee, all your readers are earth signs!

November?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

There's bugger all else to do in those cold winter evenings!

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

If not, then we're into the suggestion that being born in a particular month predisposes you to particular behaviours and that smacks of astrology, so I don't like it.

Er... being born in a particular time of year emphatically does predispose you to particular behaviours, doesn't it? I thought it was the only reasonable explanation for Astrology there was going...

Admittedly, in the last 50 years or so the most obvious yearly variation of diet in the western world has rather homogenised, since nowadays you can bring up kids on pizza, sunny delight and chips all year round, but things like day length, external temperature and so on must still have quite a developmental effect. Or at least, I've always thought so...

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Well, I know quite a lot of people with the same birthday as me (September 29th). Nine months after Xmas/New year. Hmm.

[venta.livejournal.com]

there's always a bit of a clump of birthdays round February/March

I think all the Pisceans are deliberately avoiding filling in this poll just to make me look stupid. Bastards.

Some more data points...

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Birth month	Number	Projected conception month
January	8	April
February	6	May
March	11	June
April	8	July
May	9	August
June	7	September
July	5	October
August	5	November
September	9	December
October	5	January
November	6	February
December	3	March

And yes, this does leave out the roleplaying characters' birthdays :)

My friends seem to follow the opposite trends to yours, which is odd as some of them are the same people.

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

I always feel sorry for those born on the 29th February. Whay with only having a birthday every 4 years anorl...

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think being ealry makes a difference, too. I mean, I think people often get married in June, and so there are lots of march birthdays, ut they wouldn't show up if you have a lot of friends ho were five or six weeks premature.

Useful page

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

You should visit http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml and look carefully at what that page tells you. Allow for those with two journals, those who are not real people and those you added to your friends list as a result of their birthdays.