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How does this article's findings correlate in countries with other cut offs? Like in Norway, everyone born the same year go to school together, even though the
by matsemann 4y ago
How does this article's findings correlate in countries with other cut offs?
Like in Norway, everyone born the same year go to school together, even though the school starts in September. (Which confused me a lot when reading Harry Potter as a kid, as some dates there didn't "add up"). We segregate sports teams that way as well, making it often better to be a jan/feb kid, as you're always the biggest/strongest, and thus get the extra attention, training opportunities etc, so a bias towards those birthdays in our sports.
- krzyk 4y agoSame in Poland. There is also a strange statistics with baby borns in early January and late December. There is a high spike of births in early days of January and a strange hole in births in the last days of December. My daughter is usually the youngest kid in class (born middle December - here we put babys born in the same year in the same class) and usually has trouble because she is not as developed as kids born 11 months earlier - this difference will be less noticeable later in life, but know when she is 6 years old it is a bit sad.
- bombcar 4y agoI wonder if there is delayed reporting by some people/hospitals to get a better “year”. I knew someone who came to the US as part of the Vietnamese boat people and his parents chopped a year or two off his age so he could start in kindergarten (and he didn’t know his actual birth year 30+ years later).
- CPLX 4y agoThat’s also how New York City does things for what it’s worth.
- oldgradstudent 4y ago> How does this article's findings correlate in countries with other cut offs? The result appears to be consistent across countries with different cutoff dates. For example, British Columbia with a December 31 cutoff date. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/184/7/755 https://www.cmaj.ca/content/184/7/755