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Birthday record-keeping

It seems to me that many cultures in the past did not keep track of birthdays. Cultures that lacked written languages would have perhaps recorded (in memory) the season of a person's birth, or its relation to a natural disaster, etc., but not an exact year. Even today, there are many older people in 3rd-world countries who do not know exactly how old they are.

I don't have any sources to support my claims. Some research should be done on this, and the article should be a little less Western-culturally biased, IMHO. Perhaps someone will be inspired to improve the article by reading my comments. Most likely, no-one will. 46.24.26.231 (talk) 01:47, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Heh

>least common birthday... December 25...

>Positive and negative associations with culturally significant dates may influence birth rates. The study shows a 5.3% decrease in spontaneous births and a 16.9% decrease in Caesarean births on Halloween

The 'positive and negative associations' of the 'culturally significant dates' being that the hospital staff is busy elsewhere and would prefer to handle it a few days on either side? Either some aspects are being passed over too quickly or these were simply poor studies to begin with. — LlywelynII 19:06, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Move to strike what seems like insignificant, dubious info

"An individual's Beddian birthday, named in tribute to firefighter Bobby Beddia, occurs during the year that their age matches the last two digits of the year they were born."

Even while reading the article cited, this makes little sense to me and seems to be extremely esoteric and possibly insignificant info. Alexandermoir (talk) 15:51, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno ... it did make it to the New Yorker ... but I'm not hell-bent on it staying in the article either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graham87 (talk • contribs) 00:37, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]