July 25, 2007

My sister has more cousins than I do

Today in "group meeting" we briefly discussed the reliability of self-reported demographic information. One researcher shared the surprising fact that in a study that used sibling pairs as the basis of analysis, the brothers reported having 5-10% few cousins than the sisters (on average). And i thought i was the only one who had a hard time remembering all of my relatives.

Posted by Matthew at July 25, 2007 06:15 PM
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...or maybe our sisters are just making people up.

Posted by: Mark at July 25, 2007 09:50 PM

I'm going to use your list of cousins for the wedding since it'll be cheaper that way.

Posted by: Mom at August 5, 2007 05:47 AM