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- Title
Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Birth and Deaths?
- Authors
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew
- Abstract
There is a commonplace notion that full moons affect natality and mortality. To test this theory, we obtain daily births and deaths data from Australia, covering all 10,592 days from 1 January 1975 to 31 December 2003. We find that full moons are not associated with any significant change in the number of conceptions, births, or deaths. Moreover, our standard errors are sufficiently tight to make it possible to rule out even modest positive or negative effects of the lunar cycle.
- Subjects
EFFECT of the moon on human beings; MOON; CHILDBIRTH in mythology; CAUSES of death; CHILDBIRTH in folklore; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
1539-8714
- Publication type
Article