Americans Prefer Sons Over Daughters?

http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/06/24/6934166-americans-prefer-sons-over-daughters-poll-finds

This article states that according to Gallup polls dating back to 1941, Americans prefer a boy if they were only allowed one child and had to choose. 40% polled said they'd choose a boy and 28% said they'd choose a girl.

Then I took the little Live Poll on the side of the article - and these were the results:

With 5,684 respondents including me these were the results:

43% boy
57% girl

So where's the disconnect here? Then, being the curious research-crazy lunatic that I am, I looked into these Gallup polls wondering how accurate they are and how many people they actually poll and found this site, http://janda.org/c10/Lectures/topic05/GallupFAQ.htm, which stated the following:

Survey researchers have actually conducted public opinion polls to find out how much confidence Americans have in polls -- and have discovered an interesting problem. People generally believe the results of polls, but they do not believe in the scientific principles on which polls are based. In a recent Gallup "poll on polls," respondents said that polls generally do a good job of forecasting elections and are accurate when measuring public opinion on other issues. Yet when asked about the scientific sampling foundation on which all polls are based, Americans were skeptical. Most said that a survey of 1,500-2,000 respondents -- a larger than average sample size for national polls -- cannot represent the views of all Americans.

So basically polls are essentially B.S., and yet we all kind-of either believe them, or like taking part in them online anyway. They sure do get annoying around Presidential campaigns.

Anyway - back to John and I and how we are only interested in having a little girl if we kid. If this business of preferring boys is true, I'm happy we're anomalies.

In other news, I've been looking at friends' baby pictures on Facebook including my friend Jen's adorable little girl, Talia Hope who happens to share my middle name.

That said, what is wrong with me?!? We can't exactly have a child tomorrow, so I've got to tone down this baby-on-the-brain business. Ugh. Thank God I have puppies to go home to, or we'd really be in trouble.