{"id":227,"date":"2005-05-30T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/30\/statistically-unlikely-baby\/"},"modified":"2005-05-30T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T13:07:07","slug":"statistically-unlikely-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/30\/statistically-unlikely-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistically unlikely baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it appears that Sarah is pretty unlikely, from a statistical point of view.<\/p>\n

Oh, not her conception–the McLarens are notoriously fertile (“… so fertile that sometimes the neighbours get pregnant.” Ba-Dum-Tsh<\/em>)–but her height.<\/p>\n

We measured her this weekend, and got a height of 30 inches. This measurement was, if anything, erroneous on the conservative side.<\/p>\n

However, when we went to look at some statistics and see where 30 inches falls for a 9 month old girl, well…<\/p>\n

See for yourself.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, it appears that Sarah is pretty unlikely, from a statistical point of view. Oh, not her conception–the McLarens are notoriously fertile (“… so fertile that sometimes the neighbours get pregnant.” Ba-Dum-Tsh)–but her height. We measured her this weekend, and got a height of 30 inches. This measurement was, if anything, erroneous on the conservative side. However, when we went… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-3F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}