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Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters
Bifurcati writes "While it might be irrelevant for many /.ers, a recent study has shown that people in stereotypically male professions (engineering, IT, mathematics, etc) are more likely to have sons than daughters, while nurses, therapists and teachers tend to produce more girls. Based on independent survey data, engineering types produce 140 boys to every 100 girls, while nurses and the like produce 135 girls to 100 boys. The explanation is unclear, but it might have interesting long-term social implications. A more detailed summary of the journal article is available on Illuminating Science."
"While it might be irrelevant for many /.ers"
should have stopped there, /.ers dont know what sex is let alone girls. lets think about these storys before they are posted. now we will all wonder what a "girl" is
What does this have to do with which sperm gets into the egg?
Nurses know how to choose a specific microscopic sperm by contracting their uterine muscles. They do this so that we can have more movies Naughty Nurses series!
Engineers know how to construct nets to catch all the sperm that make baby girls so that they can pass on their geekiness to another male generation!
Nurses also tend to be very sweet girls(speaking from a guy point of view). I think the sweet, caring, nurturing type of girls are naturally attracted to a nursing career. I've dated two nurses. One was a LPN and the other was a RN. I'm single, so I don't have to turn in my geek card. However, if I ever luck up and date another nurse, I will latch on. I recommend you do the same :)
...those who can't count in binary , and those who can't count at all.