Quote of the Day 5-24-10
Bookmakers have worked out the odds of three generations of the same
family all having boys born on the same day as 272,910 to one.
May.25, 2010 8:59 am |
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Sweet story!!
I bet they throw quite a party!! :)
That’s quite amazing!!
I know they’re great people — why? They’re all fellow Tauruses!
What a cute, tiny little baby! Must take after Grandpa’s hair!
That is awesome! I love it!
Oh wow, that’s amazing. I could have been born on my dad’s birthday if I’d stayed in the womb for another two hours, but even if I had been, I’m a girl.
What a tiny little guy! I love the hair. :D
… except that with baby due dates it’s not exactly random, you just count nine months out and your chances are improved significantly ;)
My son and husband (a Jr.) have the same birthday and the same name. Grandpa was born a little over a month earlier, though.
We’ve run some odds–because we do that sort of thing–and it’s actually likely that most people know a family where a parent and child share a baby. There are two parents, after all, and usually two children, sometimes quite a bit more… and while baby Peter’s name was decided before birth, it’s not necessarily always that way, so the same name thing in conjunction with the same birthday can’t really be considered part of the odds, even if it’s neat. Wonder if the group that calculated the odds took into account that you can have more than one chance to try for the feat?
Considering that it’s unlikely one will conceive on one’s first try, and that a woman’s cycle only allows for the possibility of conception about once a month, while one could attempt the same birthday trick, there’s still a lot of luck involved.
Hannah was born on DH’s work anniversary. Each kid has a number shared by their birth month and birth day. The time at which Hannah was born is a palindrome, as is her name (which is a coincidence). So while the odds of any one particular coincidence is low, the odds of some sort of weird coincidence being involved with any event probably is not.
My son and husband (a Jr.) have the same birthday and the same name. Grandpa was born a little over a month earlier, though.
We’ve run some odds–because we do that sort of thing–and it’s actually likely that most people know a family where a parent and child share a baby. There are two parents, after all, and usually two children, sometimes quite a bit more… and while baby Peter’s name was decided before birth, it’s not necessarily always that way, so the same name thing in conjunction with the same birthday can’t really be considered part of the odds, even if it’s neat. Wonder if the group that calculated the odds took into account that you can have more than one chance to try for the feat?
Considering that it’s unlikely one will conceive on one’s first try, and that a woman’s cycle only allows for the possibility of conception about once a month, while one could attempt the same birthday trick, there’s still a lot of luck involved.
Hannah was born on DH’s work anniversary. Each kid has a number shared by their birth month and birth day. The time at which Hannah was born is a palindrome, as is her name (which is a coincidence). So while the odds of any one particular coincidence is low, the odds of some sort of weird coincidence being involved with any event probably is not.
I’m curious as to how bookmakers worked out the odds. The chances of a son is 1:2 and to be born on the same day is 1:365. Given the grandfather is a male (of course), and assuming only one child per generation, I figured a probability of 1:532,900. The odds will improve given more than one child per generation, including that of the grandfather. But then, would uncles and nephews be considered a success?