Same here. I wondered how that was even possible before discovering my Lemmy client had cropped out the legend. Not a fan of this coloring scheme, especially having white as the median value.
Possibly chosen? My brother was born on the 1st of the month because my mom had a planned C-section and they gave her a window and let her pick the date. She picked something easy to remember. Although this may be less common because it's no longer mandatory to have a c-section just because your previous birth was via c-section, afaik.
peak just before and after Christmas would indicate that it's day of birth, since hospitals work with reduced capacity on these days and induced births or c-sections will not happen then unless it's an emergency.
why so many births are on 14.02. is a mystery to me.
Best guess seems to be choice of day to induce labor within a given window. A lot of people, if given a window of Feb 7th through 21st or something, will choose the 14th for Valentine's Day
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Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 2y
I think some of the numbers are skewed because of induced births. Hospitals won't schedule an induced birth on Christmas day, if they can help it.
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Ah yeah - I found myself staring at the 2nd half of December a bit puzzled, but you're absolutely on to it.
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 2y
I spent far too long looking at this graph thinking that blue was male and pink was female and drawing the wrong conclusions
adhocfungus@midwest.social · 5 pts · 2y
Same here. I wondered how that was even possible before discovering my Lemmy client had cropped out the legend. Not a fan of this coloring scheme, especially having white as the median value.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 11 pts · 2y
I’m guessing this data is from one hemisphere (the northern?)
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
My guess is just the US, because of the low birth rate on 4th of July.
zippythezigzag@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
People really working hard to have kids on Valentine's day.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Possibly chosen? My brother was born on the 1st of the month because my mom had a planned C-section and they gave her a window and let her pick the date. She picked something easy to remember. Although this may be less common because it's no longer mandatory to have a c-section just because your previous birth was via c-section, afaik.
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Nine months after St.Patricks day, there's a blip on December 12. Interesting....
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
I would have thought Feb 29 would be an extra-dark level of blue
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
People party around end of year. Babies get born 9 months later.
morphballganon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Jan 1st and Dec 25th both less common than Feb 29th? Sounds unrealistic.
BenVimes@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
Other users have pointed it out: this data set likely includes induced births and c-sections, neither of which would be scheduled on a holiday.
You can also see a dip around 4 July, so this data is probably from the USA
RustyNova@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Looks off. Isn't it more the days of conception rather birthday? It's rather lucky that they are so many babies on feb14, exactly on Valentine days
gaston1592@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
peak just before and after Christmas would indicate that it's day of birth, since hospitals work with reduced capacity on these days and induced births or c-sections will not happen then unless it's an emergency.
why so many births are on 14.02. is a mystery to me.
neatchee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Best guess seems to be choice of day to induce labor within a given window. A lot of people, if given a window of Feb 7th through 21st or something, will choose the 14th for Valentine's Day
Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Thanks !
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
are there absolute numbers? it would be interesting to know how big is the deviation.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
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