We are big fan’s of 37 Signals and their book ‘Getting Real‘. We used two of their products, Backpack and Basecamp in the building Kidmondo. We really respect their work and most importantly how they work. In fact, when we were stomped on how to get a particular feature working on our site, we often asked ourselves, “what would 37signals do?”

Well, 37signals profiled us on their product blog. It will give you a good insight on us and how we went about building Kidmondo.

I read a recent article by Judith Graham from Chicago Tribune entitled A puzzle over fewer boys. She points out that while historically there are more boys being born than girls, the gap is closing and no one is really sure why. I quote:

In the U.S., the ratio of baby boys to girls has been declining since 1970, translating into 17 fewer males for every 10,000 births, or an estimated 135,000 fewer boys born between 1970 and 2002, according to a study last year in Environmental Health Perspectives.

With Kidmondo a little over 1 month old, I thought I would be interesting to compare these results with the children on Kidmondo, the vast of which were born after 2000 (we do have a few exceptions). The results of which may surprise you.

As you can see from the chart below the boys still seem to have a significant statistical lead:

What does this mean? We are not sure, but it sure is interesting.