Parity Bit

Posted on Aug 27, 2008 by Ike in Language, Personal, Sociology | 1 Comment

My daughter is gearing up for the fall soccer season in the girls Under-6 league.  There were supposed to be six girls per team, and for the most part there were.  One observation I had was the jersey numbers were reflective of the leagues.  The jerseys in the U-6 league went up to 6.  The jerseys in the U-8 league went up to the number 8.

It was the bottom side of the roster that was odd.  Or rather even:

  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 2

There were two 2’s on each team.  Best I could figure is they didn’t want the pressure of being #1 to go to some poor child’s head.

[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, soccer, parity[/tags]

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  1. Craftsman says:

    Note that the larger numbers correspond to the larger sizes. I guess they expected there to be two small girls on each team.

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