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."

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Re:diet can affect gender...

[nanoakron]

There is evidence that shows women who are victims of single-incident rapes are statistically more likely to conceive than normal sexually-active women.

Statistically.

Google for it.

-Nano.