Taking the Y out of Wireless

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Another perl person became the father of a daughter in the past few days [congratulations Ken :)] and this is another interesting and corroborating datapoint for a theory I have that I would like to see given some real research. My theory is this:

Men who use Apple iBooks/Powerbooks with wireless cards have a very high probability [>85%] of having female offspring that is far greater than the statistical average.

For the Americans who slept through basic biology classes in grade school, I should explain that the sperm determines the sex/gender, not the mother via excretions of hormones, nor are all embryos female at conception since as far as the genetics are concerned you are either XX or XY at the moment of fertilisation. I started half-jokingly suggesting this idea when a few perl guys had female babies but the trend has continued to the point where there may be something to it. One perl guy who uses an iBook without wireless has a male baby. One guy had a baby boy before he started using a wireless iBook and afterwards he had a baby girl. Coincidence? I'm really beginning to believe that it isn't.

Perhaps it's some sort of karma or divine revenge to give computer geeks who aren't entirely aware of what jerks, intentional or not, they are towards women, but science can't empirically prove that. It is entirely possible that the Y sperm are weaker [typically they are and this is partially why all the woman's eggs are X's, at least this was the theory back in the dark ages when I was in university] and more susceptible to the wireless card radiation which, when the laptop is on the lap, is sitting directly above the family jewels. Bullshit or an emerging pattern of plausible causation? Or maybe a secret conspiracy by women's organisations to breed more women? :) It would be a fascinating clinical study if a few medical people decided to take the theory and try to prove it right or wrong. I, of course, will continue to be very entertained by the baby girls ganging up on perl guys. :)