Super Bowl Babies: More Boy Births 9 Months Later?

Ah, Super Bowl Sunday. One of the unofficial national holidays of Americans, and second only to Thanksgiving in the amount of food and drink consumed. The annual championship game of the National Football League in the U.S. is often the most-watched television event of the year. During any big event — whether man-made or natural — researchers often find surprising trends in birth rates. When you follow the data, all sorts of interesting things can be discovered. Let’s find out how Super Bowl Sunday influences birth rates in America. Let’s face it. The Super Bowl has become one of those annual pastimes that Americans often use as an excuse to gather, socialize, party, and for some, watch a sometimes-exciting, but all-too-often boring game of American football. Great teams who had a bad game watch forlornly from their own homes, hoping for another shot at the title game next year. A part of the party-like atmosphere that surrounds Super Bowl Sunday for many couples also involves sex. For psychological reasons, humans seem to have more sex than usual around a major event, whether it’s man-made like this one, or natural (think after a natural disaster, and everyone is safe). Grech & Zammit (2018) were interested in the question of how the male to female ratio of births is impacted by Super Bowl Sunday, and whether any significant changes they found were influenced by race or area of the country. According to the researchers, births by race and r...
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