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Have all girls or all boys? Study suggests the odds aren't 50/50 (www.npr.org)
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[–] madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I can see the bias they are trying to account for, but fail to see how excluding a birth from the statistics helps combat this in any way. Just because you stopped having kids doesn't have any effect on the gender of your last kid.