2007-02-25 10:17:25 · 9 answers · asked by Viking 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
If you only had 23 relatives and friends, there would be a greater than 50% chance that at least two of them shared a birthday. Google the "birthday paradox" if you don't believe me!
2007-02-25 12:12:10 · answer #1 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are a few trains of thought on this one that i have discovered,as my family is much the same, but i also have marriages and deaths and other important dates falling on or near each other, also there is strange coincidences where people have married people, or had children of the same names over and over throughout the generations. you can check that out using a site such as www.ancestry.com. In one instance in my family, parents who called their child george, had that child be stillborn or die in infancy. this happened nearly 50 times since 1640! So i feel we are having these dates brought to our attention for certain reasons which you can discover if you look deeply enough. My advice to you is look into it, sometimes our ancestors just want to be acknowelged, then they are content.I think after exhausting all other efforts to bring things to our attention, they frustrated and step up their efforts, often with disasterous consequences....
2007-02-25 12:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know I have the same thing in my family. Some one should do a study to see if its genetic?? all my family (10 people) fall within 2 and half months.
2007-02-25 12:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by suzanne w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coincidence.
2007-02-25 10:20:38 · answer #4 · answered by ra63 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on when their birth dates occur. My family and my husbands family have a lot of birthdays in September and this is because my father's birthday and Christmas and New Years are all right in that time and we were all our mother's gifts to our fathers
2007-02-25 11:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by meretta1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Imagine that you know more than 365 ppl... it would be odd that everybody would be born on diferent dates.. it's more normal than ppl that you know are born on the same dates than one every day.
2007-02-25 10:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by The.Girl.From.The.Rockshow 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its probably just a coincidence. That is pretty cool though.
2007-02-25 10:28:55 · answer #7 · answered by Monkeybananas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kind of neat but expensive during that time.
2007-02-25 10:21:27 · answer #8 · answered by Made in America 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
coincidence
2007-02-25 12:38:53 · answer #9 · answered by ccourtne_99 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋