Specht S M, Tushup R J, Deatrick C N
Department of Psychology, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003.
Psychol Rep. 1992 Dec;71(3 Pt 1):944-6. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3.944.
The relationship between admission dates and patients' birthdays was examined for 200 psychiatric and 200 alcoholic patients from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Chi-squared analyses indicated that admission dates for subjects of both populations did not occur disproportionately close to their birthdays.
