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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 226485" data-attributes="member: 29323">No, no one has ever conducted research into egg sack statistics as far as I know & I would assume for the sort of reasons, that I gave above. Hence, why I give accepted hobby knowledge, as it is all we seem to have. To be taken seriously & to seen as scientific & thus something reliable & worth quoting as a figure. As I said above such research would need to check multiple egg sacks to find an average male to female number for each species. Looking at one egg sack, even two or three, is not scientific & would not give any form of reliable average figure. Or not unless we already knew that egg sacks produced very similar results across multiple species & even then it would still only be an educated guess.Using your pseudoscientific methodology, we could look at Fred Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church & conclude that all families are like his. Or how about families who have twins or triplets, are they typical of human birth numbers? I worked as part of a team of 6 people at one point, & 2 colleges were born as part of triplets.  Provable statistics shows that the chance of triplets is 1 in 62,500 birth. Your pseudoscientific methodology could easily have concluded, from my former work place, that it was 2 in 6.</blockquote>