Here is a more believable chart, covering 62,187,024 US births (2000-2014) based on Social Security Administration’s data. The scale is not completely arbitrary on this one.
Meanwhile, the post’s chart actual Reddit OOP is u/plotset, an account made to shill PlotSet.com, a data visualization software.
They had this to say about the data:
This data represents 4,153,303 US-born babies only between 2000 and 2014.
Top 10 Most Common: Sep 12 (0.307%) Sep 19 (0.306%), Sep 20 (0.302%), Dec 19 (0.300%), Sep 10 (0.300%), Dec 20 (0.299%),Sep 18 (0.299%), Aug 8 (0.299%), Sep 26 (0.299%), Sep 17 (0.298%)
Top 10 Least Common: Dec 25 (0.155%), Jan 1 (0.186%), Dec 24 (0.193%), Jul 4 (0.212%), Jan 2 (0.231%), Dec 26 (0.238%), Nov 23 (0.238%), Nov 25 (0.240%), Nov 27 (0.241%), Nov 24 (0.241%)
Note that the “4,153,303” figure is bullshit. It is close to births per year but does not actually correspond to the sum in any of the 15 years, nor the average.
Here is a more believable chart, covering 62,187,024 US births (2000-2014) based on Social Security Administration’s data. The scale is not completely arbitrary on this one.
Meanwhile, the post’s chart actual Reddit OOP is u/plotset, an account made to shill PlotSet.com, a data visualization software.
They had this to say about the data:
Note that the “4,153,303” figure is bullshit. It is close to births per year but does not actually correspond to the sum in any of the 15 years, nor the average.
This absolutely varies by country/culture, not drastically, but you will see different patterns
So it is about average for almost all days. You have more births in fall, probably because of more sex in winter.
And it seems woman really don’t want to birth on important holidays. I didn’t think that the power of will is that strong.
Don’t forget the weekdays. The total births in the dataset by weekday are:
SUN|||||||||||||||||||||||| 5886889MON||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 9316001TUE||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 10274874WED|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 10109130THU|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 10045436FRI||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 9850199SAT|||||||||||||||||||||||||| 6704495It’s not, but the power of scheduling a c-section so that you don’t spend Christmas at the hospital is.