Don't be shy, it must be more than that. With all the new hostess bars opening you are seriously slacking, get on the case in 2015 you digital nomad you.gavinmac wrote:ali baba wrote:We should all go on facebook and count how many khmers have birthdays today. I've counted 2 out of 4.
I have 5 Khmer female Facebook friends with birthdays today. That's out of about 50 or so.
January 1 birthdays
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4 out of about 40 here. It must be a default value date, as statistically it doesn't make sense.
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Until Steam changed the default field population, 93% of all users were born on the 1st of January that's around 50 million peoplelogos wrote:4 out of about 40 here. It must be a default value date, as statistically it doesn't make sense.
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It may have something to do with default Facebook values, but I noticed the January 1 birthday trend long before I started stalking Khmer women on Facebook.johnnyj wrote:Until Steam changed the default field population, 93% of all users were born on the 1st of January that's around 50 million peoplelogos wrote:4 out of about 40 here. It must be a default value date, as statistically it doesn't make sense.
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G-mac - can you kindly lease share those contacts with me. I promise I won't contact any of them...I'm just doing unrelated "research"...thanks in advance...gavinmac wrote:ali baba wrote:We should all go on facebook and count how many khmers have birthdays today. I've counted 2 out of 4.
I have 5 Khmer female Facebook friends with birthdays today. That's out of about 50 or so.
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If anybody is bored and feeling a tad anally retentive have a read of the 'birthday paradox' article on Wikipedia.
The statistical distribution of birthdays does not satisfy simple logic.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
I concur however in this case the lack of records will lead to many choosing a convenient date.
The statistical distribution of birthdays does not satisfy simple logic.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
I concur however in this case the lack of records will lead to many choosing a convenient date.
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My facebook feed is blowing up telling me than five Cambodian women I know had birthdays yesterday.
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I was going to start a thread to see who had the most friends with birthday yesterday.
But I got distracted with eating too much food.
I had 14 FB friends with birthdays yesterday but 4 of those account were from the same person who keeps forgetting passwords and starting new accounts - so really only 11.
Am sure there are folk here with many more.
But I got distracted with eating too much food.
I had 14 FB friends with birthdays yesterday but 4 of those account were from the same person who keeps forgetting passwords and starting new accounts - so really only 11.
Am sure there are folk here with many more.
January 1 is any easy day to remember to use for internet profiles. See the Khmer440 birthdays for January 1.
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A random list of people, who all became Prime Minister of Australia.mookuy wrote:"In a group of just seven random people, it is more likely than not that two of them will have a birthday within a week of each other."
And:
"An informal demonstration of the problem can be made from the List of Prime Ministers of Australia, in which Paul Keating, the 24th Prime Minister, and Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister, share same birthday i.e. 18 January.
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Have had some interesting discussions about this in the west regarding how old you are when born. Take into account tacking on the 9 months, you'll feel better having lived longerbar one wrote:D is pretty much the correct answer. I do believe that most Khmer's dispense with Maths and decide that they add a year to their age from the first of January. They are also born 1 year old. So a girl who says she is 18 is probably only 17 in Western terms.
Never mind.
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