The next in the Freakonomics series
Your birth month might have a significant bearing on what you achieve in life and, indeed, who you are. If someone is having a baby in May in south-east Uganda, or Michigan for that matter, chances are that the baby will be born with birth defects. Now let’s examine the same thing in sport. In soccer, half of the players in a British team are likely to have their birth dates between April and December while the other half between January and March; 50 percent of the players born in 25 percent of the year.
(This story appears in the 04 December, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)