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Would there be any adverse effects on the world if people took note of this, causing the distribution of birthdays to change so that there was a significant spi

• cactusface 11y ago
  More Cancers and less cancers?
• randomname2 11y ago
  This has only been tested in New York yet. It'd certainly be interesting if the high/low risk months varied depending on birth location or wherever mom spends her time during pregnancy.
  • blowski 11y ago
    > This has only been tested in New York That's a very important point. The effect (if it were to be proved) could be reversed in the southern hemisphere, and completely absent in non-city environments. I'm plucking those hypotheses out of thin air, but it seems obvious that the risk goes up because of some underlying reason. Perhaps being born in New York in October increases the chance that you'll spend most of your first few months of life in a damp-infested flat without much natural light. Perhaps it's because of increased stressed levels at school associated with being one of the oldest in your peer group. Without knowing the underlying causes, this is just an interesting tidbit.
    • vlasev 11y ago
      The conditions are correlated with the changing seasons so it's only logical to consider things on the other side of the equator. I suspect that all the effects will be gone around the equator where the differences between the months are quite small. I'm not sure about the city connections but I think there have been studies showing people in big cities suffer from more asthma and so on.