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To think the Chinese gender prediction calculator is always accurate?

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Dreamingofthree · 21/10/2024 22:15

Eerily so for me and everyone i know (who’s had kids)

is there anyone out there who’s it’s not been accurate for

link below

https://www.babycenter.com/chinese-gender-predictor

Yabu- it’s not always write, it’s not science. Yanbu- it’s been bang on for everyone I know, it’s magic

Chinese gender predictor chart and calendar tool

Find out how an ancient Chinese gender chart predicts which sex your baby will be.

https://www.babycenter.com/chinese-gender-predictor

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Bagpuss83 · 22/10/2024 16:54

WiserOlderElf · 22/10/2024 16:51

It makes no sense.

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Ok. I'm sorry I've been unable to explain it to you.

WiserOlderElf · 22/10/2024 16:51

Bagpuss83 · 22/10/2024 16:14

It is better to use a tool than to guess. Of course it is. That just makes sense.

It suppose it's like a mental version of using a mower to cut the grass instead of my hands or a lesser tool like scissors.

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It makes no sense.

Beezknees · 22/10/2024 16:51

Just checked it. Said girl. I have a boy.

Reserved101 · 22/10/2024 16:50

Bagpuss83 · 22/10/2024 16:14

It is better to use a tool than to guess. Of course it is. That just makes sense.

It suppose it's like a mental version of using a mower to cut the grass instead of my hands or a lesser tool like scissors.

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So would you say that tossing a coin is better than just guessing?

DowntonNabby · 22/10/2024 16:32

Nope. Told me I'd have a boy, I had a girl.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 22/10/2024 16:24

I just tried it for my 3 boys and it said girl every time lol

Favouritefruits · 22/10/2024 16:23

no just random, I have two boys but it came out withgirls

Spidey66 · 22/10/2024 16:20

I've not got kids but went by my mums age and the month I was conceived. I should've been a boy. Would have saved me a hysterectomy!

Kdubs1981 · 22/10/2024 16:19

Well it'll be right 50% of the time

Tadpolecat · 22/10/2024 16:17

Wrong. I concieved in May at 30 years old, and had a boy, not a girl.

TheKeatingFive · 22/10/2024 16:17

0/2 for me

Bjorkdidit · 22/10/2024 16:17

What's your sample size that proves, to the 95% confidence level, that it's a better method than just guessing?

I'm not a mathematician, but a scientist with a side interest in statistics. Every hypothesis, in this case 'a tool that gives you the answer based on evidence rather than just randomly picking option A or option B, ie 'just guessing'' needs to be proved with a mechanism, rather than just occurring by random chance, or a correlation based on an unrelated factor.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 22/10/2024 16:16

But the tool is based on bollocks.
You could get the same results by flipping a coin

Bagpuss83 · 22/10/2024 16:14

CurlewKate · 22/10/2024 16:10

@Bagpuss83 "The other, you have used a tool to get you some way to the answer - albeit not all the way there. That's a better method than just guessing."

Ah. No it isn't.

It is better to use a tool than to guess. Of course it is. That just makes sense.

It suppose it's like a mental version of using a mower to cut the grass instead of my hands or a lesser tool like scissors.

CurlewKate · 22/10/2024 16:10

@Bagpuss83 "The other, you have used a tool to get you some way to the answer - albeit not all the way there. That's a better method than just guessing."

Ah. No it isn't.

Bagpuss83 · 22/10/2024 16:07

CurlewKate · 22/10/2024 15:10

@Bagpuss83 "A guess is just a guess - pure luck and randomness.

If using a tool, even if not a perfect one, gets you a 50:50 chance of being right than surely that is better than using nothing at all."

I don't understand. How is it better than using nothing at all if a guess gives you exactly the same chance of being right as the tool does?

The first, you have just guessed, which is purely arbitrary.

The other, you have used a tool to get you some way to the answer - albeit not all the way there. That's a better method than just guessing.

CurlewKate · 22/10/2024 15:10

@Bagpuss83 "A guess is just a guess - pure luck and randomness.

If using a tool, even if not a perfect one, gets you a 50:50 chance of being right than surely that is better than using nothing at all."

I don't understand. How is it better than using nothing at all if a guess gives you exactly the same chance of being right as the tool does?

alwaysmovingforwards · 22/10/2024 13:37

“Yabu- it’s not always write, it’s not science.”

hmmmmmm the OP tells me things without telling me things 😆

ChateauMargaux · 22/10/2024 09:41

1 right, 2 wrong...

FeedingThem · 22/10/2024 09:33

Said first son was a girl but got twins right. So 50/50

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 22/10/2024 09:32

Yesterday while in a lift at a hospital, a pregnant woman was told by a random old lady that she was 'definitely having a boy', and she knows this because of the way she was 'carrying the bump' and that 'she was never wrong'.
Said pregnant woman smiled at old lady, thanked her, and smiled at me. When old lady got out the lift, pregnant woman told me she was having a girl...
So yes, it's unscientific nonsense

Aposterhasnoname · 22/10/2024 09:31

Doesn’t go down in age low enough for me. I had mine at 17. Got both my grandkids spot on though.

Dontcallmescarface · 22/10/2024 09:30

Well according to that I gave birth to a boy.....not sure how to break the news to DD though.

Oganesson118 · 22/10/2024 09:29

Right for me but tbf it’s a 50/50 chance

newrubylane · 22/10/2024 09:29

How would my husband's sperm know how old I am or what month it is? It was both right and wrong for me - it predicted a boy, but I have boy/girl twins 😆

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