“Winter Babies” are different from “Summer Babies”

Actually, if you look at the graph, mothers of winter babies tend to be younger. There is a higher percentage of teenage mothers in the winter.

“The three graphs above show that women who give birth in winter months (blue dots) tend to be older…”

I think you mean younger, as the graph shows that a higher percentage of women giving birth in January are teenagers.

So THAT’s why I’m so poor. It all makes sense now. Thanks a lot mom!

I would think that during summer months in a hot/cold climate, single women would be out and about more, and perhaps have more opportunities to have sex.

Married couples tend to have more sex in the winter as there may be less to do, and I think many couples like to plan for a summer baby for various reasons. Just from a comfort perspective, women who plan a pregnancy tend to choose the winter months so as not to be huge/heavy/uncomfortable during hot summer months.

Just a theory

@Sabrina, as a PHD you should realize that there are always outliers and your personal experience is merely anecdotal.

Does it invert in the southern hemisphere?

If I read your graphs right, the article should read that there are more teenagers giving birth in the winter so the winter age is younger, not older.

Wow.. how soon we all forget! Prom is usually in May… Babies follow in Jan & Feb.. Never underestimate the social effects of the “last great event” of high school… (graduation is a lower level event on the social scale in Texas).

Richard Wiseman’s book Quirkology had a section about a marked difference between summer and winter kids. I forget the specific advantage- it may have been happiness or at may have been how lucky they felt they were. The advantage went to the summer babies.
Later a similar study was done in the southern hemisphere. Again, the kids born in the warmer months (in this case Dec, Jan, Feb) had the best advantage.

As a December 27th kid, I wonder how I’d have turned out if I made my debut in July?

Huh, what? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This article reminds me of Churchill. Trust no statistic that you didn’t fake yourself. Anyway, what are the statistic principles? City / State / Country? Number or testers? Tester Background? Socio-economic background (for 3 generations)?

How come we ignore the supposed “psychologically approven” approaches when doing this blabla tests?

To prove the contrary: our “Winter” baby has a very intelligent mother (as well as father, both well educated at renown universities), is already beyond her actual age (8 months) and has more curiosity about her surroundings than many an elder peer. The exception that proves the case? No – statistics are pure bull shit. Thx for telling people they are dumb for having kids in Winter. If you can’t differentiate between objective information an statistical manipulation, perchance you should consider a political job… Or maybe a banker: they make good money trying to tell people “things are a certain way because statistics prove it – although I have no clue about the study in case”…

Since when did Neatorama go yellow?

What about spring and autumn babies?