Birthdays

Yeh, Mr Fs familys birthday begin on 31st december and beween then and march 12th (my bday) there his sister, grandad, both Nanas, mum& dad..and now mini flow will be in that time frame too!!

My OH birthday was Saturday, also 1987, obviously a cold Christmas!

I have my twin brother and sister, mum, 2 best friends and a niece all born in October, I just remain poor between September and Christmas

The birthday paradox: you only need 57 people to be 99% confident that there is a shared birthday.

Birthday clustering is confirmation bias. You notice a pattern and then fit more and more people into it, while ignoring (or ascribing less significance) to those who don't.

April's a really busy month for me, with my Grandma's mine, Mr Nursey, and 4 friends

April 16th is a particularly busy day, with 3 friends (1 x 1983 and 2 x 1984)

True, but generally it's facebook telling me who's birthday it is rather than my brain. There aren't many days it goes above 2.

My family is really well spread out, rarely more than one birthday per month.

There are quite a few between Christmas and feb then none untill me at end of March then all spread out. So in short no, they are quite well behaved birthday wise.

Frequency of birthdays, babies born in the US, 1973-99:

Heavily clustered from late July through September. Lots of busy Christmases!

None on the same day but it is my mums birthday today and there is exactly six mOnths between us which I like. At school there was someone in every year that shared my birthday!

In my office of around 40-50 employees, there are 2 others who have the same borthday as me! Plus my friend's husband. And I had a friend whose birthday was the day before me.

I am always stupidly excited to share my birthday with someone!!