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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I think there are more women in the world than men, because women have a longer life expectancy, but when it comes to babies I believe there are males than females.
According to Wikipedia:
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I think the tendency of certain countries to abort females and not males is what's actually skewing those numbers.
Anyways it was meant more of an out of the box problem, with the emphasis on the wording of the question. If I had asked, "A woman has 2 children, the first baby was a female. What are the chances the second one is also a female?" THEN the answer would be 50%