Interesting article about male runners and sex of baby

As an aside, I read the comments in things like this and people's unbelievable hubris just completely floors me. "This cannot possibly be true, because 30 years ago, I was taught that males determine sex and not females in middle school, and also, Mendel." One definition of stupidity is immediately dismissing people who know more than you as being stupid because you cannot consider new information, and those comments certainly prove this. Hey losers, if a study is showing something different (and the article discusses several studies in it), it's time to POSSIBLY reconsider that you, Online Douchebag #246498, may just simply not be fully informed and there may be something more going on here, ya know, new discoveries, the way those happen??

Atomic - you're so right and it's my silly scientific brain that needs evidence and numbers and all that kind of stuff... I'm so used to precision and detail that it's really hard for me! So please excuse some of my need for detail which j know in my heart of hearts just isn't there :) it's probably why I have two boys!

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

As an aside, I read the comments in things like this and people's unbelievable hubris just completely floors me. "This cannot possibly be true, because 30 years ago, I was taught that males determine sex and not females in middle school, and also, Mendel." One definition of stupidity is immediately dismissing people who know more than you as being stupid because you cannot consider new information, and those comments certainly prove this. Hey losers, if a study is showing something different (and the article discusses several studies in it), it's time to POSSIBLY reconsider that you, Online Douchebag #246498, may just simply not be fully informed and there may be something more going on here, ya know, new discoveries, the way those happen??

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EVERY online source I've read (apart from in here) has some wise guy telling everyone reliably that it's the guy who dictates the sex of the baby. And with it, implies we are all totally dumb by even reading the latest study into it. Makes me so mad!!

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Originally Posted by honeybee37

Atomic - you're so right and it's my silly scientific brain that needs evidence and numbers and all that kind of stuff... I'm so used to precision and detail that it's really hard for me! So please excuse some of my need for detail which j know in my heart of hearts just isn't there :) it's probably why I have two boys!

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No not at all, it was a perfectly sensible question, but it's just that I keep coming back to the common sense of it all which is - just DO what works even if you can't get it exactly at the level what some researcher here or there says, that is probably ok.

I think it's the kind of thing where if your partner already enjoys running and is logging significant miles he might be willing to do a little more (within reason) rather than a little less but I wouldn't expect someone who isn't already a runner to run 30 miles.

This makes sense to me and gives me hope as when DH and I conceived our two boys he was not cycling at all. Yet, when we conceived our DD1 he was cycling to and from work every day 5 days a week. Coincidence? I hope it plays in our favour again for a second DD.

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Originally Posted by honeybee37

EVERY online source I've read (apart from in here) has some wise guy telling everyone reliably that it's the guy who dictates the sex of the baby. And with it, implies we are all totally dumb by even reading the latest study into it. Makes me so mad!!

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Exactly!!! It is just so bizarre to see people absolutely dismiss even the remotest possibility that idea might have been wrong or that new information could possibly shed a different light on it - it's actually been a good life lesson really because even experts do it, and it makes one stop and think about if the "expert" saying X, Y, and Z (on any topic) is really informed or they are just spouting the conventional wisdom without questioning it.