Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 06:30 am, you wrote:
> Roger Mills scripsit:
> > My psych prof's favorite examples of a spurious statistical correlation:
> > the softness of asphalt in NYC streets / infant and elderly death rate.
>
> My dad's boss once wrote a letter to some magazine that had published a
> country-by-country comparison of smoking rates and lung cancer rates (the
> more smoking, the more lung cancer, not surprisingly).  He presented them
> with a table showing smoking rates vs. cholera rates for various countries:
> the more smoking, the less cholera.  (Probably wouldn't work today.)
>
> There is also the correlation between one's age and the size of the
> universe. This is different from the other two, in that one cannot trace
> even an indirect connection.
Now that would indeed lead to an interesting SF/Fantasy story - "Myself As
God!"  "Deus Absconditus, or How I learned to stop worrying and love myself
for who I am!"  "God and the Mystery of the Empty Biscuit Tin or Why has God
been having midnight snacks?"

One day when I'm feeling full of myself and decide the world has an
unalienable right to my opinions about myself <;) I just might write it!
<(>;=()>))))

Wesley Parish

--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."