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Could Influence of the season of birth be better? I'm not sure. --AaThinker (talk) 22:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Season of birth in destiny

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At present time the original text (September 2009) of this article was erased. I don't know - why it was made. Such article was interesting only on separate page. Yes, of course, It was scientific article. But this article showed how season of birth can be a destiny.
Original text was erased. I don't want to know - who did it. I am sorry. It was a good idea. Leonid 2 (talk) 11:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your comment (request,question?). Can you try to clarify, please. Verbal chat 11:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I reverted back to previous version, because removing all this content is like throwing out the child with the bathwater.Lova Falk talk 13:30, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

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This article... really does not need a picture. How does the image convey any extra information? I'm going to remove it for now, if anyone disagrees, feel free to respond here, and put it back up. 8bit (talk) 12:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I like the heatmap-frequency picture a lot. It seems apparent that during the (US American) holidays July 4th or Christmas there are fewer births. Some information on the reasons for these peculiarities would be nice to have in the article. I would assume (but have no sources to back this up) this is because medical professionals induce or postpone births if possible to not fall on (maybe short-staffed) holidays.
145.40.208.28 (talk) 20:25, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is an interesting and worthwhile chart, but it needs at the very least to have its source disclosed. Ideally a properly structured citation should be provided.
Lack of attribution raises a number of issues: where has the chart come from? What stats and methodology were used to generate it? Are they from a trusted reliable source? etc.
Also there is no information of the time period the chart covers, so we are left in doubt as to its currency.
Lastly the chart is annotated with daggers (e.g. on Christmas Day), implying footnotes, but there are no such notes included. Presumably they were on the original source, but in the absence of any attribution, we are unable to research this further. My mother's birthday has one of these dagger marks and I would certainly like to know how it impacts the data shown. MrEckLeckTick (talk) 10:48, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Further to my last post, the heatmap in the current (04 April 2023) version, appears to originate in a revision by @Some1 at 16:47hrs, 29 Jan 2023 - see here.
The edit replaced the previous US-only heatmap and is commented by the text "this image includes the UK", but the source is obscure.
the image appears to be an .svg file uploaded to Wikipedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Most_common_birthdays.svg
No Commons metadata is presented to the user when the image is opened - perhaps because it is interactive?
The Page Source has this content in a description tag:
"Heat map of the birth ratio of each day to the average in the USA for people born from 1994 to 1999 according to the Center for Disease Control and 2000 to 2014 according to the Social Security Administration (top), and in Wales and England for people born from 1995 to 2014 according to the Office for National Statistics (bottom), also aggregated by month and day of month with 29 February normalised, and minima and maxima in bold by CMG Lee. * Most common birthdays are in September. ; Least common birthdays fall around Christmas, New Year's and April Fools' Days, plus in the USA, Independence Day, Hallowe'en and Thanksgiving. The 13th of each month has fewer birthdays than adjacent days. Valentine's Day is overrepresented in the USA. There is a weak weekly cycle due to the small number of years taken, but overall, England and Wales have a more uniform distribution. Data is from http://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/births and http://ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/articles/howpopularisyourbirthday/2015-12-18 . In the SVG file, hover over a date to highlight it on both tables."
This does at least go some way to answer the Qs re sources - perhaps a Wikipedian slciker at edits than myself could incorporate this into the main article?
MrEckLeckTick MrEckLeckTick (talk) 11:53, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The sources for the heat map can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Most_common_birthdays.svg Some1 (talk) 11:52, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks - our posts overlapped.
When I click on the image however, I do not reach that Commons page with the metadata readable. MrEckLeckTick (talk) 11:55, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I had to click the little icon to the top right of the caption to get to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Most_common_birthdays.svg. I'm not sure why clicking on the image itself doesn't take readers to the File page. Cmglee, could you help answer? Thanks! Some1 (talk) 12:07, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Some1, The link parameter was set to point directly at the SVG file so that the reader can use its interactivity: highlighting the entire column and rows (in both regions) of the cell pointed at. As you found, the file page can still be accessed with the icon. This is a workaround while http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5593 is being resolved. Cheers, cmɢʟeeτaʟκ 12:51, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@MrEckLeckTick: Thanks for finding and reposting the info. I quite agree that the footnotes and references should be in the caption, and can add them if we all concur here. Cheers, cmɢʟeeτaʟκ 12:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The interactivity of the heatmap is a key feature, so it's important that is preserved. You adding the footnotes and refs into a caption sounds a good plan to me. Be aware that the gobbet I quoted above is missing the correct symbols for the asterisk, dagger and double dagger, so better to use the text from the metadata page on Wikipedia Commons.
Thanks for offering to sort it - the article will definitely benefit.
Cheers,
MrEckLeckTick MrEckLeckTick (talk) 18:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Cmglee, yes, that sounds like a good idea to me too. Feel free to make the edit. Some1 (talk) 23:44, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've decided to add a link to the description on the file page instead of cluttering the caption with a legend and pushing down the wide graph on narrow browsers, creating an unsightly gap between it and its heading. How's that? cmɢʟeeτaʟκ 03:17, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Astrological Sign

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Should link to the Astrological Sign article 106.69.34.82 (talk) 11:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Graph of rankings

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I wonder if anyone else finds File:Graphic_birthday_rank_USA.svg possibly misleading:

Graph of rankings

Unless one pays attention to the caption and vertical axis, it looks like a frequency distribution.

  1. It makes all relative differences uniform, so the first-place bar is longer than the second-place bar by the same amount as any two adjacent ranks, where the differences in frequency is extremely unlikely to be so.
  2. Comparing absolute lengths, the first-place bar is 1/365 longer than the second-place bar, but the penultimate-place bar is twice longer than the last-place bar.

Plotting frequencies seems more representative of reality to me.

Nevertheless, as with the table version, the number of years is too small (or at least, the occurences of, say, Jan 1 is not distributed evenly over the days of the week) such that the weekly spikes are apparent, making it hard to discriminate effects of day-of-week from day-of-year.

Cheers,
cmɢʟeeτaʟκ 03:35, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I find it very misleading. I wrote a little about it here. I realize now that it was probably the wrong place. A frequency plot (per day of year) with enough data would be much more appropriate, perhaps combined with an illustration of the day-of-week distribution. I also understand that there are significant variations between countries, which is not apparent now. 98.128.246.117 (talk) 07:52, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Day of week of Jan 1 Leap year Gregorian calendar for years from 1973 to 2400
Monday   1973 2001 2029 2057 2085 2125 2153 2181 2221 2249 2277 2317 2345 2373
Tuesday   1974 2002 2030 2058 2086 2126 2154 2182 2222 2250 2278 2318 2346 2374
Wednesday   1975 2003 2031 2059 2087 2127 2155 2183 2200 2223 2251 2279 2319 2347 2375
Thursday 1976 2004 2032 2060 2088 2128 2156 2184 2224 2252 2280 2320 2348 2376
Saturday   1977 2005 2033 2061 2089 2101 2129 2157 2185 2225 2253 2281 2321 2349 2377
Sunday   1978 2006 2034 2062 2090 2102 2130 2158 2186 2226 2254 2282 2322 2350 2378
Monday   1979 2007 2035 2063 2091 2103 2131 2159 2187 2227 2255 2283 2300 2323 2351 2379
Tuesday 1980 2008 2036 2064 2092 2104 2132 2160 2188 2228 2256 2284 2324 2352 2380
Thursday   1981 2009 2037 2065 2093 2105 2133 2161 2189 2201 2229 2257 2285 2325 2353 2381
Friday   1982 2010 2038 2066 2094 2106 2134 2162 2190 2202 2230 2258 2286 2326 2354 2382
Saturday   1983 2011 2039 2067 2095 2107 2135 2163 2191 2203 2231 2259 2287 2327 2355 2383
Sunday 1984 2012 2040 2068 2096 2108 2136 2164 2192 2204 2232 2260 2288 2328 2356 2384
Tuesday   1985 2013 2041 2069 2097 2109 2137 2165 2193 2205 2233 2261 2289 2301 2329 2357 2385
Wednesday   1986 2014 2042 2070 2098 2110 2138 2166 2194 2206 2234 2262 2290 2302 2330 2358 2386
Thursday   1987 2015 2043 2071 2099 2111 2139 2167 2195 2207 2235 2263 2291 2303 2331 2359 2387
Friday 1988 2016 2044 2072 2112 2140 2168 2196 2208 2236 2264 2292 2304 2332 2360 2388
Sunday   1989 2017 2045 2073 2113 2141 2169 2197 2209 2237 2265 2293 2305 2333 2361 2389
Monday   1990 2018 2046 2074 2114 2142 2170 2198 2210 2238 2266 2294 2306 2334 2362 2390
Tuesday   1991 2019 2047 2075 2115 2143 2171 2199 2211 2239 2267 2295 2307 2335 2363 2391
Wednesday 1992 2020 2048 2076 2116 2144 2172 2212 2240 2268 2296 2308 2336 2364 2392
Friday   1993 2021 2049 2077 2117 2145 2173 2213 2241 2269 2297 2309 2337 2365 2393
Saturday   1994 2022 2050 2078 2118 2146 2174 2214 2242 2270 2298 2310 2338 2366 2394
Sunday   1995 2023 2051 2079 2119 2147 2175 2215 2243 2271 2299 2311 2339 2367 2395
Monday 1996 2024 2052 2080 2120 2148 2176 2216 2244 2272 2312 2340 2368 2396
Wednesday   1997 2025 2053 2081 2121 2149 2177 2217 2245 2273 2313 2341 2369 2397
Thursday   1998 2026 2054 2082 2122 2150 2178 2218 2246 2274 2314 2342 2370 2398
Friday   1999 2027 2055 2083 2100 2123 2151 2179 2219 2247 2275 2315 2343 2371 2399
Saturday 2000 2028 2056 2084 2124 2152 2180 2220 2248 2276 2316 2344 2372 2400
P.S. As we have data for 1995 to 2014, can we restrict the choice of years to distribute each day-of-year uniformly over each day-of-week? It gets complicated with leap years, though. Cheers, cmɢʟeeτaʟκ 03:58, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]