Interesting result after looking at due dates data

[Serendipity]

I have been meaning to look at the data for the recent due date clubs to see if it would help me to decide what supplements to take- here's what I found, it turned out to be really interesting-

I just had some time to look at the results of the due date groups in regards to supps, here's what I found-

March/apr/May sways

25 people swayed girl, 15 failed sways, 10 successful sways

Out of the opposites-


5 took Saw Palmetto

1 took calcium & magnesium

3 took aspirin

7 took anti Hists

Out of the Successful Sways-


0 took Saw Palmetto

0 took calcium & mag

3 took aspirin

5 took ant Hists


For the June/July/Aug

21 people swayed girl, 8 sways failed, 13 succeeded. 3 people didn't sway but got a girl.


Out of the opposites-


1 took Saw Palmetto

1 took calcium & magnesium

1 took aspirin

1 took anti Hists


Of the successes-


4 took Saw Palmetto

1 took calcium & magnesium

3 took aspirin

6 took anti Hists


So in total for these two groups-

46 swayed girl

23 failed

23 succeeded

That seems like a completely random 50% split to me. I really wasn't expecting that when I totaled them up at the end. If anyone wants the details to check, I have written down all the names and those who posted their sways results that I could find. Most of the people who posted sways were doing the LE diet.

[BoysMamaTTC4aGirl]

Just curious, do you know how many of these purchased a personalized plan?

[atomic sagebrush]

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...readsheet.html Hmm well according to this the pink sways are doing better than 60% and these numbers haven't been updated for awhile, we've had several successes recently that aren't reflected in the numbers as of yet. LE diet overall was 67% and went between 60%-80% success rate depending on how long people did it for.

We've had the blue sways running between 70-80% and most of the boy-moms have a boy-friendly diet/lifestyle, so what you have to understand is, for those of us who already have boys, we may have been coming into swaying with quite high chances of a boy to begin with due to our diet/lifestyle. To go from 70-80% of a boy to 50-50 is STILL a good sway. When I was swaying, I felt like I had virtually no chance at a girl, and I felt that if I could get to 50-50, I'd take the flip of a coin at that point.

[atomic sagebrush]

Just curious, do you know how many of these purchased a personalized plan?

The personalized sway plan numbers are going to be exactly the same as the overall stats because the custom sway plan people don't get any special secret info, they just have me do the planning for them. I try to keep all sway info available to everyone.

[nuthinbutpink]

There are many more people that purchase plans that never post in the open forum. We do follow up with them to find out how things turned out.

Only a subset of people post in the due date forums so it's not totally accurate. Even 50-50 is fine with me though because those that end up on tha happy side of the 50 were at 0% before trying our swaying recommendations.

[Serendipity]

Don't mean to offend anyone by posting these results, as I said I was looking for supplement information and the results took me by surprise, so I thought I should share them. This is data posted from the due date clubs results, which can be seen in the sticky posts there. Am I right in saying the data in the spreadsheet is added to by the individual? Some people might not have added their sways if so. Again I would like to say I don't mean to annoy people by posting this, I personally would love it if swaying tipped the odds, but must admit this has thrown me by how random the results were, it seems to reflect the almost 50-50 split you'd expect to see in the general population. Sorry to bring it up, but thought it was important to share.

[atomic sagebrush]

There are many more people that purchase plans that never post in the open forum. We do follow up with them to find out how things turned out.

Only a subset of people post in the due date forums so it's not totally accurate. Even 50-50 is fine with me though because those that end up on tha happy side of the 50 were at 0% before trying our swaying recommendations.

and a lot of the custom sway people haven't added their sway info. I don't really feel kosher about saying, well this person and that person got a girl when they've a)not chosen to share that publicly and b)have everyone expect to take me at my word - because I could be making those numbers up.

My whole deal on sway stats has been to try and make them as fair and transparent as I can - so we include everyone's stats even people who didn't really do "good" sways and we want all the stats to be from sways where anyone can doublecheck the numbers. We don 't want to cherrypick the data to make swaying look more effective and we don't want you guys to have to just take us at our word on the numbers, we want you to be able to see for yourselves.

The one due date forum had bad luck unfortunately. At the same time we had some custom sway plan successes and some others who weren't active in the due date forum. (I even posted about that at the time somewhere in that forum)

At the end of the day stats are just a tool and we need to take from them what we will.

[atomic sagebrush]

We're not annoyed, just trying to provide accurate info and explanation.

The data in that spreadsheet was compiled by rainbowflower on the basis of the "add your sway" stats. So anyone who added their sway, is in the spreadsheet. This includes the peopel in the due date forums because most people who like to hang out on the site have added their sway info.

[Serendipity]

From what I can see, there are 18 people from the public forums who haven't added their sways to the spreadsheet, that being said, most of these (11) are successes. So I'd be interested to ask anyone who is still around after swaying to add their data to the spreadsheet to make it as accurate as we can. I know rainbowflower did ask the due date boards to do just that. The thing that worries me is that failed sways might lose heart and not post again and it skews the data. *sigh* Sorry to be a naysayer, but I'm trying to base a decision on all the data available. Believe me, I'd be over the moon if the data showed a significant tip over the 50% average.

[nuthinbutpink]

There are lots of factors to consider besides supplements though when looking at results.

People's age, number of children, weight, lifestyle. They all make up a sway. I don't agree that 50/50 is random either. If it was, a lot of us wouldn't have to be here. We have many people that have had several of the same gender that finally get an opposite.

Our number of away plans is in the few 100s though so 11 isn't going to mean much as far as stats go from a big picture standpoint.

50/50 doesn't mean swaying doesn't work. Nobody on this forum fits the 50/50 "what you would expect odds." That's the only point I'm trying to make.