Interesting data, but shouldn’t this also be compared to the average birth month pattern in general? That would provide more evidence for the relative age effect. Births are not equal across all months to start with in humans (even simplistically based on days of the moths).
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Reply to [OC] Birth months of FIFA World Cup players. The top three are January, February and March, possibly due to the "Relative age effect" by desfirsit
Interesting data, but shouldn’t this also be compared to the average birth month pattern in general? That would provide more evidence for the relative age effect. Births are not equal across all months to start with in humans (even simplistically based on days of the moths).