As people born on February 29th can’t celebrate their birthday on the correct date every year, they are most likely to celebrate it on neighboring days.

Assuming equal amount of people was born each other day, this extra quarter adds to those actually born on February 28th/March 1st, making those days most likely for someone to host a celebration.

  • SkaveRat
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    23 hours ago

    On pure mathematical basis, I can see it, yes

    But given the fact that birth rates are not evenly distributed across the year, it’s probably not the case in reality

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      21 hours ago

      I thought the same too, but if you take into account the whole planet, with different cultures and different climates, maybe that evens out the distribution making it uniform again? Then again, there are cultures that don’t even use the gregorian calendar so maybe that skews the distribution once again lol