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A good analogy for this is flipping a coin. What is the proportion of total heads to total tails if a population of people each flip a coin until they get a heads. The answer is fairly trivial, as each coin flip is independent. Given a fair coin, you would expect the answer to be near 1. You could always calculate the variance given the population size using the binomial distribution.

A more fruitful question might be: what is the average family size in a country with these birthing habits?




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