Author Topic: Capricorns and Sagittariuses, ever wondered why your moms madd dumb? (Read 186 times)

QuietTruth · « **on:** September 23, 2009, 02:52:40 PM »

Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test poorly, don't get as far in school, earn less, are less healthy, and don't live as long as children born at other times of year. Researchers have spent years documenting the effect and trying to understand it.

But economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame may have uncovered an overlooked explanation for why season of birth matters.

Their discovery challenges the validity of past research and highlights how seemingly safe assumptions economists make may overlook key causes of curious effects. And they came across it by accident.

In 2007, Mr. Hungerman was doing research on sibling behavior when he noticed that children in the same families tend to be born at the same time of year. Meanwhile, Ms. Buckles was examining the economic factors that lead to multiple births, and coming across what looked like a relationship between mothers' education levels and when children were born.

"I was just playing around with the data and getting an unexpected result," Ms. Buckles recalls of the tendency that less educated mothers were having children in winter.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125356566517528879.html?mod=yhoofront

Floydness · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2009, 03:10:48 PM »

http://www.astrology-online.com/capricrn.htm

Astrologically speaking, capricorns are the most goal oriented people, and they to be the most successful.

QuietTruth · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2009, 03:12:29 PM »

Unfortunately our moms ain't as smart. Sucks for them.

Muhfukka · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2009, 03:21:21 PM »

Quote from: Floydness on September 23, 2009, 03:10:48 PM

http://www.astrology-online.com/capricrn.htm

Astrologically speaking, capricorns are the most goal oriented people, and they to be the most successful.

yes and astrology is science