Back in April I blogged about a British study that suggested that women who ate lots of cereal when they were pregnant were more likely to have a boy:http://babybumpproject.blogspot.com/2008/04/want-baby-boy-eat-breakfast.html
According to a different research team from Cornell, this is..well..highly unlikely. Using a different statistical test, the authors think that the results from the first study were largely due to chance:" By our analysis, it looked like everything was random and there was nothing special about cereal," says Stan Young, assistant director for bioinformatics at the National Institution of Statistical Sciences.
Just by the nature of a large dataset, it is inevitable that the interaction of some variable will show statistical significance. Confirming my own suspicions at the time, the Cornell group further implores the tenuous link between nutrition and gender (if there is one at all).
So ladies, you can keep eating the Cap'n Crunch but just don't get your heart set on a growing a tiny pair of testicles in your womb.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/765psy
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