Myths, Urban Legends, And Apocrypha Of TS2 Explored And Exploded
KLGFCG:
Quick question... does the number of a particular gender in the neighborhood have any influence on the genders of new babies? In other words, if you have more females in the neighborhood, does that increase the chances of new babies being male or vice versa? I seem to get a LOT of boy babies but I'm not sure if there's anything more than odd randomness involved. Thanks for any answers, oh awesome one. ~KG
J. M. Pescado:
There's a possibility that it's sadorandom in such a manner, but I've never managed to get enough of an imbalance and had enough time to actually statistically rule out the possibility that any such runs are simply random chance. Also, there's "stickiness" in the random number generator which can potentially bias results as well.
SimsHost:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 23, 08:17:13
There's a possibility that it's sadorandom in such a manner...
Did you mean pseudorandom, or was that pun intentional? :D
Anyhow, what JM said. I'm leaning toward a theory that an individual player will develop certain habits in starting up the game, entering households, and doing things that would pulse the random number generator. The random number generator seems to start with the same seed each time the game is started so there is a distinct possibility that you are seeing repeatable phenomena in the sex of the children.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 September 03, 04:01:24
Did you mean pseudorandom, or was that pun intentional? :D
Intentional. Sadorandom, as in "pretends to be random but is actually sadistic".
SimsHost:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 September 03, 08:26:05
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 September 03, 04:01:24
Did you mean pseudorandom, or was that pun intentional? :D
Intentional. Sadorandom, as in "pretends to be random but is actually sadistic".
Awesomely put. I'll have to add that one to my list of Bon Mots Worthy of Stealing as soon as I file the serial numbers off.
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