An article on the BBC News website states that: Overall, the study found that 51.5% of babies born to couples living together at the time of conception were boys, compared to 49.9% among parents who were not.
A couple of issues with this:
1) Why is this interesting, I can’t believe that it’s statistically significant. 2) Much more importantly where are these 1.4% of people who are both boys and girls? I think we need to be told this important information.
Matt White 
I think that the figures might have been mis-interpreted there. Doesn’t it mean that 51.5% of babies born to couples living together are boys (therefore 48.5% are girls) and that 49.9% of babies born to couples not living together are boys (therefore 50.1% are girls)?
This is significant only because it suggests that there are ways to influence the gender of your child and that, if families continue to change, we could end up with a lot more females than males in future. Small percentages over a long time in a big population add up.
I might be wrong though!
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You are, of course, completely correct, I just felt like being obtuse 😉
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Always nice to be ‘completely correct’, have seen that as one of my aims in life!
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