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On the absence of implicit sex-preference in Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Jack Goody ,
Colin Duly ,
Ian Beeson  and
Graham Harrison
Jack Goody
Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Colin Duly
Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Ian Beeson
Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Graham Harrison
Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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Summary

As part of a comparative analysis of uterine sibling groups to discover any evidence of ‘stopping rules’ related to actual preferences for children of one sex or another, the distribution of sequences of births by sex from a Ghanaian sample of 9392 mothers has been examined. No such rules can be detected.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 87 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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